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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't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.
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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
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I'm scarcely an enfant!
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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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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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
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