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Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
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It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.
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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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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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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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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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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
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I'm scarcely an enfant!
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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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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.
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