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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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
You can't give your heart to a wild thing.
— 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
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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Go inside the house. I was frightened,
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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
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
I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
— 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
Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work ... But, that's not writing . That's typing.
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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
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
It was a warm evening, nearly summer, and she wore a slim cool black dress, black sandals, a pearl choker
— Truman Capote
The compulsively superstitious person is also very often a serious believer in fate; that was the case with Perry.
— 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
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
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
— Truman Capote
I know the next best thing is often the very best.
— Truman Capote
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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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
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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 thingsthink of wind — Truman Capote
But, ah, the energy we spend hiding from one another, afraid as we are of being identified.
— Truman Capote
But the willows were willows and the goldenrod goldenrod and the dancers dead and lost.
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
— Truman Capote
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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