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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

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase. — Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice, — Truman Capote

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

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

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead. — Truman Capote

There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink. — Truman Capote

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

However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism. — Truman Capote

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy. — 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

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating. — Truman Capote

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

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old. — Truman Capote

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone ... — Truman Capote

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

it's fruitcake weather! — Truman Capote

People don't belong to people. I'm not gonna let anyone put me in a cage. — 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

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. — Truman Capote

Go inside the house. I was frightened, — 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

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. — Truman Capote

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. — Truman Capote

Are the dead as lonesome as the living? — Truman Capote

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

Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims. — Truman Capote

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies. — Truman Capote

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

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end. — Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise she was perfect. — Truman Capote

What happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity. — Truman Capote

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. — Truman Capote

Always, the path unwinds through lemony sun pools and pitch vine tunnels. — Truman Capote

My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order. — Truman Capote

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

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art. — Gore Vidal

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

So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived — Truman Capote

To be an artist today is such an act of faith: nothing can come back from it except the satisfaction of the art itself. — 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

They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense — Truman Capote

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. — Rich Little

Scrubbed, combed, as tidy as two dudes setting off on a double date, they went out to the car. — Truman Capote

Holly had married him: well, well. I wished I were under the wheels of the train. — Truman Capote

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

The better the actor, the more stupid he is. — Truman Capote

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. — Truman Capote

A sensible question, as Mrs. Clare, an admirer of logic, though a curious interpreter of it, was driven to admit. — Truman Capote

Silently, wallowing in the pleasures of conspiracy, — 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

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

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

Excitement - a variety of creative coma - overcame me. — Truman Capote

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. — Truman Capote

I know the next best thing is often the very best. — Truman Capote

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. — Truman Capote

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. — 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

His dreams were clear blue — Truman Capote

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

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

Good writing is rewriting. — Truman Capote

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

think of nothing things
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

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

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