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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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 live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
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Traveling wears me out.
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
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