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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
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
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
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
it's fruitcake weather!
— 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
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
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
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
You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
— Truman Capote
think of nothing thingsthink of wind — Truman Capote
But, ah, the energy we spend hiding from one another, afraid as we are of being identified.
— 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
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
