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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
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Truman Garcia Capote
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I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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