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… — 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
Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him… — 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
There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. — 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
I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able… — 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
