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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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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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Work is the only device I know of.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.
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I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
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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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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
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She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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