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I remember things the way they should have been. — Truman Capote

We huddle in the bed, and she squeezes my hand I-love-you. — Truman Capote

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. — Truman Capote

Morning was in the room and pigeons were gargling on the fire escape. — Truman Capote

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

You can't give your heart to a wild thing. — Truman Capote

You musn't give yur hearth to wild things... — Truman Capote

And that Perry could not abide: anyone's ridiculing the parrot, — Truman Capote

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away. — Truman Capote

They've had the old clap-yo'-hands so many times it amounts to applause. — Truman Capote

All literature is gossip — Truman Capote

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo. — Truman Capote

It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty. — Truman Capote

If concealment is the single weapon, then a villain is never a villain; one smiles to the very end. — Truman Capote

It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes. — Truman Capote

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion. — Truman Capote

it's fruitcake weather! — Truman Capote

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending. — Truman Capote

That's not writing, that's typing. — Truman Capote

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio. — Truman Capote

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. — Truman Capote

Small towns are best for spending Christmas, I think. They catch the mood quicker and change and come alive under its spell. — Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. — Truman Capote

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace. — Truman Capote

There's the one and only T.C. There was nobody like me before, and there ain't gonna be anybody like me after I'm gone ... — Truman Capote

Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden. — Truman Capote

The midnight hours were her time to be selfish and vain — Truman Capote

Freedom may be the most important thing in life, but there's such a thing as too much freedom. — Truman Capote

In fact, I was a kind of Hershey Bar whore - there wasn't much I wouldn't do for a nickel's worth of chocolate. — Truman Capote

One day she told the class, 'Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.' — Truman Capote

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles. — Truman Capote

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem. — Truman Capote

There's got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did. — Truman Capote

She's such a goddamn liar maybe she don't know herself anymore. — Truman Capote

I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you're intelligent, it's too embarrassing. — Truman Capote

Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work ... But, that's not writing . That's typing. — Truman Capote

That isn't writing at all, it's typing. — Truman Capote

Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia. — Truman Capote

I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip. — Betsy Lerner

On the opposite bank, a hummingbird, whirring it's invisible wings, ate the heart of a giant tiger lily. — Truman Capote

We don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. — Truman Capote

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays. — Truman Capote

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. — Debbie Harry

It's the uncertainty concerning themselves that makes our friends conspire to deny the differences. — Truman Capote

I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much. — Chris Pratt

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year. — Truman Capote

Then, touching the brim of his cap, he headed for home and the day's work, unaware that it would be his last. — Truman Capote

Bonnie Jean said, "You don't understand. Daddy's taking us away. To Nebraska." Bess Hartman looked at the mother, — Truman Capote

Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist. — Truman Capote

Don't wanna ride on the devil's side ... just wanna ride with you — Truman Capote

No. Because I'm not a cold plate of m-m-macaroni. I'm a warm-hearted person. It's the basis of my character. — Truman Capote

Oh, he's not my idea of the absolute finito. — Truman Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. — Truman Capote

What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter's evening. — Truman Capote

I'm praying for you, Mary. I want you to live forever. — Truman Capote

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson. — Dylan Penn

That's not bad. I can't get excited by a man until he's forty-two. — Truman Capote

You're wonderful. Unique. I love you. — Truman Capote

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost. — Truman Capote

The compulsively superstitious person is also very often a serious believer in fate; that was the case with Perry. — Truman Capote

In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee. — Gerald Clarke

It was like the time he'd failed algebra and felt so relieved, so free: failure was definite, a certainty, and there is always peace in certainties. — Truman Capote

For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air of health, a soap-and-lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening of the cheeks. — Truman Capote

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. — Alvin Ailey

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai

A hundred feet ahead, a dog trotted along the side of the road. Dick swerved toward it. It — Truman Capote

it was not a place that strangers came upon by chance. — Truman Capote

Where are you, Fred? Because it's cold. There's snow in the wind. — Truman Capote

It was a warm evening, nearly summer, and she wore a slim cool black dress, black sandals, a pearl choker — Truman Capote

Let's don't say another word. let's just go to sleep ... — Truman Capote

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. — Truman Capote

I'll own up: I think it is a dream, Miss Verena. But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison. — Truman Capote

Other voices, other rooms, voices lost and clouded, strummed his dreams. — Truman Capote

But the willows were willows and the goldenrod goldenrod and the dancers dead and lost. — Truman Capote

His dreams were clear blue — Truman Capote

I can't accept overnight what I've always denied. — Truman Capote

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege. — Truman Capote

But that's impossible. Can you imagine Mr. Clutter missing church? Just to sleep? — Truman Capote

I believe in hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged. — Truman Capote

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. — Truman Capote

Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies. — Truman Capote

Truman Capote is really an interesting cat. — Steve Earle

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. — Truman Capote

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. — Gerald Clarke

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine. — Truman Capote

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think of wind — Truman Capote

But, ah, the energy we spend hiding from one another, afraid as we are of being identified. — Truman Capote

I've been other things beside a clown. I have sold insurance, too. — Truman Capote

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu. — Toby Jones

A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird. — Truman Capote

What is today?"
"Thursday."
"Thursday." She stood up. "My God," she said, and sat down again with a moan. "It's too gruesome. — Truman Capote

Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing. — Joseph Cavano

the city swayed in a squall-like downpour. Sharks might have swum through the air, — Truman Capote

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two. — Truman Capote

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller. — Truman Capote

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows. — Truman Capote

Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady. — Truman Capote

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer. — Lisa Unger

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. — Truman Capote

If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove. — Truman Capote