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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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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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All artists are two-headed calves.
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Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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