All Truman Capote Quotes
- Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had… Affectionate
- Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a… Advised
- But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with… Came
- It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable… All
- She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray… Bits
- I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s. Breakfast
- A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. Acquaintance
- She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to… Admitting
- New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water. Diamond
- Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. Any
- And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came. Breath
- She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. Beauty
- Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost. Aires
- And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. Artifice
- It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy. Anyone
- I thought of the future, and spoke of the past. Future
- I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat. Clutter
- When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas. , Answered Prayers (Unspoiled Monsters). Answered
- It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ. Every Year
- It isn't writing at all - it's typing All
- When I think about how good my book could be, I can hardly breathe. Book
- Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic… American
- Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go. Box