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"Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolescence ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror."

Truman Capote, Too Brief a Treat

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Truman Capote in his apartment in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, 1958.  Photo by Slim Aarons.

"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."

Truman Capote

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Capote and Lee.

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Truman Capote, 1959 by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Truman Capote (March 30, 1948) by Carl Van Vechten

Truman Capote portrait by Karl Bissinger
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Truman Capote in Holcomb, Kansas,April, 1967 photographed by Steve Schapiro
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Truman Capote, New York, 1955 - photograph by Richard Avedon
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Truman Capote