Morning Quotes by Truman Capote

11 Morning quotes by Truman Capote

Truman Capote’s morning musings are gathered in eleven brief statements, each marked by his sharp, observational tone. The snippets feel like a quick stroll through the early hours, revealing subtle details with his characteristic wit.

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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 were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color…

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“morning was in the room and pigeons were gargling on the fire escape.”

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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other…

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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around…

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“Morning. Frozen rime lusters the grass; the sun, round as an orange and orange as hot-weather moons, balances on the horizon, burnishes…

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“That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to…

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What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is…

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When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the…

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...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and…

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And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been…

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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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