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You don't run out on people you run out on yourself.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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Traveling wears me out.
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I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper not morally, aesthetically.
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Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky
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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.
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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