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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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