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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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 remember things the way they should have been.
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But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.
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Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
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