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Traveling wears me out.
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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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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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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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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
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I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
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I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
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She sounds the way bananas taste.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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