All Truman Capote Quotes
- I despise people who can't control themselves. Control
- But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a… Cat
- What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the… Bad
- I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away. Buster
- But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a… Anybody
- Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department. Always Top
- So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived Alike
- Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past. All
- Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist. All
- He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.... Alone
- Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette,… Age
- Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second:… Any
- Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem. Boy
- 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
- [C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity? Death
- [Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in… Believe
- I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen. Content
- It’s better to look at the sky than live there Better
- Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is. All
- I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a… Already Shown
- our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create. Anxieties
- The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection. Inspirational
- all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil… All
- I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. Always Drawn
- She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect. Flaw