I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“If you can hear time passing it makes the day last longer. I've come to appreciate a long day.” — 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
I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“He had no thought og how it was before he came to the farm. His memory of those times was like a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I was jut vamping for time to make a few self-improvements: I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star, it's… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I've got to stay awake,' she said, punching her cheeks until the roses came. 'There isn't time to sleep, I'd look consumptive,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past. — 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
“It was like the time he'd failed algebra and felt so relieved, so free: failure was definite, a certainty, and there is… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
[C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity? — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Grady felt a chill echo, the kind that comes when, in an original situation, one has the sensation of its all having… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity? — 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
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