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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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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
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But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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