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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
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I've never been a teacher in my life.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.
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Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.
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I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.
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