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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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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Traveling wears me out.
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Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.
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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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If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?
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Work is the only device I know of.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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 like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. A voodoo amulet, so to say.
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One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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