Truman Capote Quotes

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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.

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

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.

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 hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before yo...

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

But the address, if it ever existed, never was sent, which made me sad, there was so much I wanted to write her: that I'd sold two stories, had read where the Trawlers were countersuing for divorce, w...

Grady felt a chill echo, the kind that comes when, in an original situation, one has the sensation of its all having occurred before: if we know the past, and live the present, is it possible that we...

In school we only learn to recognize the words and to spell but the application of these words to real life is another thing that only life and living can give us.

It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going?

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the ri...

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 the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming,...

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

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

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 will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natura...

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

There is always something wrong with redheads. The hair is kinky, or it's the wrong color, too dark and tough, or too pale and sickly. And the skin - it rejects the elements: wind, sun, everything dis...

There's so few things men can talk about. If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he doesn't like girls.