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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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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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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
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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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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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I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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