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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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Traveling wears me out.
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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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