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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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