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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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Truman Garcia Capote
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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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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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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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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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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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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