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I never had a rejection slip in my life.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.
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My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.
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Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.
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Randolph, he said, were you ever as young as me? And Randolph said: I was never so old.
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Traveling wears me out.
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I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.
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[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of itnothing very bad could happen to you there.
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There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.
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It may be normal, darling but I'd rather be natural.
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Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.
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