Truman Capote Quotes

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

She's such a goddamn liar maybe she don't know herself anymore.

think of nothing things
think of wind

Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

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. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

[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 forms other than the natural one.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.'
Not at all.'
She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.