The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional … - Truman Capote

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The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

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About Truman Capote

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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F. Scott Fitzgerald Margaret Atwood E. M. Forster Virginia Woolf Toni Morrison

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