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Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky." "She's drunk," Joe Bell informed me. "Moderately," Holly confessed....Holly lifted her martini. "Let's wish the Doc luck, too," she said, touching her glass against mine. "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.


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Carson bought a crypt at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Forster but had ignored the author's homosexuality. Capote's will provided that after Dunphy's death a literary trust would be establiTruman Capoted sustained by revenues from Capote's works to fund various literary prizes fellowships and scholarships including the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin the Smith College professor and critic who lost his job after his homosexuality was exposed.

Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30 1924 – August 25 1984) known as Truman Capote (pron. In the 1970s he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on television talk shows. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the age of 11 and for the rest of his childhood he honed his writing ability.

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