“It's a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I… — 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
That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Aside from all else, there is some truth in that; clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself:… — 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
