Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

— Truman Capote

“We huddle in the bed, and she squeezes my hand I-love-you.”

— Truman Capote

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

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“A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick." -Holly Golightly”

— Truman Capote

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

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New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

— Truman Capote

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

— Truman Capote

“So little, once it has changed, changes back.”

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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

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I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of…

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“It was an atmosphere of luxurious exhaustion, like a ripened, shedding rose, while all that waited outside wad the failing New York…

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Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them…

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Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and…

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“What is today?" "Thursday." "Thursday. " She stood up. "My God," she said, and sat down again with a moan. "It's too gruesome. ”

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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

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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.

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“But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough…

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The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her…

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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of…

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“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep,…

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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called…

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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're…

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“Empecé a escribir cuando tenia ocho años,entonces no sabia que me había encadenado de por vida a un noble pero implacable amo...…

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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and…

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The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

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I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

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

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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

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“But the willows were willows and the goldenrod goldenrod and the dancers dead and lost.”

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“Don't wanna ride on the devil's side...just wanna ride with you”

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Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.

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I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

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He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone…

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“It was a tricky quality that suggested, well, magic and things read in books,”

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“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.”

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She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a…

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Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend…

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I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't…

— Truman Capote