Quotes by Truman Capote

“The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.”

“In California everyone goes to a therapist is a therapist or is a therapist going to a therapist.”

“I've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me peasantlike and stubborn and I'm in it 't...”

“That's not writing that's typing.”

“It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand that I didn't know was there and didn't particularly welcome. Then a pearl started forming around ...”

“I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable l...”

“He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....”

“The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself: Grady, alarmed sometimes by the meagerness of his inquiries and the indiffer...”

“You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It's a chill, it's nothing'; and then, pushing a little away: 'Say you love me.'I said it.'No, oh n...”

“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you d...”

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.”

“When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and that was all right too: because it didn't matter what you said to them, for in those ...”

“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”

“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: love, that is--if it's just a matter of sprea...”

“But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.”

“If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?”

“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.”

“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 ve...”

“You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.”