Truman Capote - Year Quotes

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A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage.

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If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

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I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

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It's a scientific fact that for every year you live in California, you lose two points off your I.Q. It's redundant to die in L.A.

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In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. [...] However, even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune [...].

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