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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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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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