Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
Truman Capote
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
Actor
Artist
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
Give
Purse
Without
Purses
Giving
Lipstick
Thing
Reach
Would
Sort
Read
Girl
Drawer
Doesn
Drawers
More quotes by Truman Capote
Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
Truman Capote
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
Truman Capote
I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
Truman Capote
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 and green like broken bits of sparkle.
Truman Capote
I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.
Truman Capote
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
Truman Capote
The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. Darling, she instructed me, would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
Truman Capote
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Truman Capote
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Truman Capote
That's not writing, that's typing
Truman Capote
When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
Truman Capote
I'm scarcely an enfant!
Truman Capote
There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
Truman Capote
Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
Truman Capote
I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
Truman Capote
Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
Truman Capote
I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
Truman Capote
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
Truman Capote
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
Truman Capote
Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
Truman Capote