Quote

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

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
Last
Away
Buster
Busters
Thrown
Scared
Knowing
Forever
Lasts

More quotes by Truman Capote

Image
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
Image
That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Truman Capote
Image
Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
Truman Capote
Image
First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
Truman Capote
Image
I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
Truman Capote
Image
All artists are two-headed calves.
Truman Capote
Image
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
Truman Capote
Image
I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
Truman Capote
Image
Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
Truman Capote
Image
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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
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
Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
Truman Capote
Image
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
Image
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
Truman Capote
Image
Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
Truman Capote
Image
If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
Truman Capote
Image
Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. A voodoo amulet, so to say.
Truman Capote
Image
My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
Truman Capote
Image
Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
Truman Capote