I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Because one thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or it will - depending. As long… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds… — 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
“In school we only learn to recognize the words and to spell but the application of these words to real life is… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends,… — 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… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Freedom may be the most important thing in life, but there's such a thing as too much freedom.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Clyde's mother was an ample, olive-dark woman with the worn and disappointed look of someone who had spent her life doing things… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“[F]or us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laugther;… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed - begin with these, learn a little what it is to… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a… — 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
![“[F]or us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laugther; and with the garbage of liveliness stuffed down us untill our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying, in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels…” quote by Truman Capote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e4c/truman-capote-376_death_f-or-us-death-is-stronger-than-life-it-p_3103961.jpg)
