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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.
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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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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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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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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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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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