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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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New Orleans
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Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.
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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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