Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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
Breaking
Garden
Hear
Nature
Rainfall
Faintly
Blooms
More quotes by Truman Capote
I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
Truman Capote
I remember things the way they should have been.
Truman Capote
Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
Truman Capote
Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
Truman Capote
I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
Truman Capote
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
Truman Capote
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
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
I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.
Truman Capote
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
Truman Capote
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
Truman Capote
Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
Truman Capote
Before birth yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
Truman Capote
our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.
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
There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you something else almost as curious.
Truman Capote
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote