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Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.
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I'm scarcely an enfant!
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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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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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
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Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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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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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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