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I'm not a philosopher.

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
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Truman Garcia Capote
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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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That's not writing, that's typing
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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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.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.
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