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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
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
France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.
— Harry S. 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
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
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 thingsthink of wind — Truman Capote
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
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
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 MeI 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
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
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
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 twoby myself. — Harry S. Truman
I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
— Harry S. Truman
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
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