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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

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'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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Before birth yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
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I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.
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