You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly:… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“You know those days when you get the mean reds?" "Same as the blues?" "No," she said slowly. "No, the blues are… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“You know those days when you've got the means reds?’ ‘Same as the blues?’ ‘No,’ she said slowly. ‘No, the blues are… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“But, Doc, I'm not fourteen any more, and I'm not Lulamae. But the terrible part is (and I realized it while we… — 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
