Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I knew Faulkner very well. He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“It's the uncertainty concerning themselves that makes our friends conspire to deny the differences.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I'll never disgrace myself. And I swear, it never crossed my mind about Holly. You can love somebody without it being like… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Preacher spit on the ground and swaggered over to Billy Bob. Come on, he said, just as though nothing had happened, She's… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Quite deliberately my friend drops a kettle on the floor. I tap-dance in front of closed doors. One by one the household… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Randolph," he said, "do you know something? I'm very happy." To which his friend made no reply. The reason for this happiness… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Grady for an instant felt the oddest loss: poor Peter, he knew her even less, she realized, than Apple, and yet, because… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“You want not to give a damn, to exist without responsibility, without faith or friends or warmth.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“My, how foolish I am!” my friend cries, suddenly alert, like a woman remembering too late she has biscuits in the over.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“You can beat your brains out for her, and she’ll hand you horseshit on a platter.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“...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… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Is it - I'm not certain - possible to love someone if your first interest is the use you can make of him? Doesn't… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“…she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
