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Truman Capote Quotes

American author (1924-1984)

Truman Garcia Capote (30 September 1924 – 25 August 1984), born Truman Streckfus Persons, was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

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Birth Name: Truman Streckfus Persons
Alternative Names: Truman Garcia Capote

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Similar: F. Scott Fitzgerald 73.1% Margaret Atwood 72.3% E. M. Forster 70.0% Virginia Woolf 69.7% Toni Morrison 69.4% Anton Chekhov 69.0% Henry James 69.0% John Updike 68.7% Vladimir Nabokov 68.4% Michael Cunningham 68.0%
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You don't understand. You've never hated anybody.

No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.

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