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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
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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You don't run out on people you run out on yourself.
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I'm not a character in any of my books.
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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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New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
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What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.
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It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the leftÂovers, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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