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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote
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Work is the only device I know of.
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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
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I'm scarcely an enfant!
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
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I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.
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