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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.
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I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.
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