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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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One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave 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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
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Before birth yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
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Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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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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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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Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
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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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