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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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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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I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory.
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New York is the only real city-city.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.
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