Quote

What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of itnothing very bad could happen to you there.

Truman Capote

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Found
Aspirin
Happens
Giggle
Doe
Quietness
Look
Taxi
Nothing
Calm
Looks
Proud
Right
Happen
Tiffany
Good
Away
Calms

More quotes by Truman Capote

Image
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
Truman Capote
Image
I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.
Truman Capote
Image
If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.
Truman Capote
Image
If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.
Truman Capote
Image
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
Truman Capote
Image
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
Truman Capote
Image
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
Truman Capote
Image
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
Image
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
Truman Capote
Image
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.
Truman Capote
Image
I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.
Truman Capote
Image
Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.
Truman Capote
Image
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
Truman Capote
Image
I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.
Truman Capote
Image
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Truman Capote
Image
A boy has to peddle his book.
Truman Capote
Image
That's not writing, that's typing
Truman Capote
Image
I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
Truman Capote
Image
Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
Truman Capote
Image
A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
Truman Capote