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Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes. — Harry Truman

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

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of? — Shannon L. Alder

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

May the sun never set on American baseball. — Harry S. Truman

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed. — Harry S. Truman

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. — Ed Harris

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman. — Harry S. Truman

I was born on Delaware Street. We have never desired another home. — Bess Truman

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. — Harry S. Truman

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower. — Harry S. Truman

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! — Harry S. Truman

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. — Harry S. Truman

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

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer. — Harry S. Truman

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

Some of my best friends never agree with me politically. — Harry S. Truman

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. — Bess Truman

it's fruitcake weather! — Truman Capote

worked, the bomb, in all probability, would shorten — Harry Truman

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

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

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7. — Harry S. Truman

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

I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together — Margaret Truman

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

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. — Harry S. Truman

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

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another. — Harry S. Truman

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

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

An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert — Harry S. Truman

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

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

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

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it! — Harry S. Truman

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. — Harry S. Truman

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

think of nothing things
think of wind — Truman Capote

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat. — Bess Truman

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

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. — Harry S. Truman

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. — Harry S. Truman

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it. — Harry Truman

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend. — Harry S. Truman

If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em. — Harry S. Truman

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

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

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

Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal. — Robert A. Caro

A hundred feet ahead, a dog trotted along the side of the road. Dick swerved toward it. It — 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 received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, Don't Worry Me
I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay. — Harry S. Truman

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

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

To me party platforms are contracts with the people. — Harry S. Truman

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

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. — Alex Karras

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

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor. — Harry S. Truman

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry Truman

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

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do. — Harry Truman

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. — Harry S. Truman

He loved politicians - even Republicans. — Margaret Truman Daniel

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman. — Jimmy Carter

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

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. — Harry S. Truman

I like riding a bicycle built for two
by myself. — Harry S. Truman

I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back. — Harry S. Truman

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them. — Bess Truman

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

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn. — Lord Mountbatten

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. — Harry S. Truman

Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble. — Harry S. Truman

The buck stops here! — Harry S. Truman

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them. — Harry S. Truman

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

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats. — Tennessee Williams

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow," Truman — David McCullough

My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working. — Harry S. Truman

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities. — Harry S. Truman

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

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will. — Harry S. Truman

The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself. — Harry S. Truman

I don't feel qualified to be president either, but I've got the job. — Harry S. Truman