All Truman Capote Quotes
- You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you,… Certain
- The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields. All
- Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite… Adolesence
- I know the next best thing is often the very best. Best
- A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird. Beautiful
- As Miss Golightly was saying, before she was so rudely interrupted... Funny
- He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist. Admitting
- But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness;… All
- [L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries. Boundaries
- But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. Addict
- I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway,… Belong
- think of nothing things think of wind Inspirational
- There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish… Color
- But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those… All
- Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims. Always Crying
- It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural. Darling
- would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick. Drawer
- Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story… Absolute
- It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty. Dirty
- If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing… All
- It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year. California
- It's redundant to die in Los Angeles. Angeles
- I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. Businessman
- The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. Aesthetically
- Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless,… All