I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent. — 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
Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone… — 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
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — 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
