All Truman Capote Quotes
- They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the… All
- But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do… Believe
- It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something… Blank
- There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something… Always Something
- Are the dead as lonesome as the living? Dead
- Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old. Inspirational
- ...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears… All
- I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows. Bring
- I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. Breakfast
- The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it… Advice
- Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. End
- You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. Friend
- Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb.… Alive
- You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. Inspirational
- That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about… Anybody
- Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller. Especially
- And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for… Afraid
- Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady. Clutter
- To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions.… Adult
- I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead. Anybody
- 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 to it. Famous
- Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. Anyone
- Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking. Feel
- Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine. Belong
- June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone. All