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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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 thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.
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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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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.
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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
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Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
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