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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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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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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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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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Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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