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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
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[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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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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The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. Darling, she instructed me, would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
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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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All artists are two-headed calves.
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