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Children Quotes by Truman Capote

12 Children quotes by Truman Capote

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If you’ve ever wondered how Capote saw the world through a child's eyes, this short set offers a taste. Though modest, the twelve lines capture his characteristic wit and tenderness, giving a quick, intimate sense of his reflections on innocence and growth.

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“How silly, my dear; don't you know that if I came here as a child, then most of me never left?”

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Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I…

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

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“Ida, dear, please, do I complain? It is right a child should not love the mama the way the mama loves the…

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Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart…

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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a…

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“How unnecessary," said Amy. "The child's morbid enough." "All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace," said Randolph, and went right…

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“As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father…

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“Snow-quiet, sleep-silent, only the fun-fire faraway songsinging of children; and the room was blue with cold, colder than the cold of fairytales:…

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But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or…

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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends,…

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“You can beat your brains out for her, and she’ll hand you horseshit on a platter.”

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“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.”

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

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Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

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

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There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's…

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“...Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only…

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“Is it - I'm not certain - possible to love someone if your first interest is the use you can make of him? Doesn't…

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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

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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, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we…

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“…she, glittery voyager of secure destination,  steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.”

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