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Talent is a valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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She sounds the way bananas taste.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
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Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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