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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
Actor
Artist
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
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Magic
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Either
Art
Arithmetic
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Biology
Everything
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Work
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Mystery

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