Quote

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder it is best done when one is a child after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

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
Looks
Child
Ages
Done
Age
Bridges
Children
Difficult
Across
Past
Childhood
Certain
Lucky
Best
Walk
Find
Walks
Look
Wonder
Bridge

More quotes by Truman Capote

Image
When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
Truman Capote
Image
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote
Image
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
Truman Capote
Image
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Image
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
Truman Capote
Image
Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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
The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
Truman Capote
Image
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
Image
She sounds the way bananas taste.
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
Good writing is rewriting.
Truman Capote
Image
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.
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
I remember things the way they should have been.
Truman Capote
Image
Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
Truman Capote
Image
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
Image
But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
Truman Capote
Image
She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
Truman Capote
Image
Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
Truman Capote