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Capote, Truman - Misc. Quotes - I'm not a saint yet
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003455
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Truman Capote
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius…………..
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true……………
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness …, 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………………
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act