Truman Capote Quotes (88 Quotes)
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- But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- You're wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you're right. She isn't a phony because she's a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can't talk her out of it.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- A sensible question, as Mrs. Clare, an admirer of logic, though a curious interpreter of it, was driven to admit.
(Truman Capote, "In Cold Blood")
- For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air of health, a soap-and-lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening of the cheeks.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Love should be allowed. I'm all for it. Now that I've got a pretty good idea what it is.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- I despise people who can't control themselves.
(Truman Capote, "In Cold Blood")
- Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- 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.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
(Truman Capote, "In Cold Blood")
- He wants awfully to be inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
(Truman Capote, "In Cold Blood")
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