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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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 that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
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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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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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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.
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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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Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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