Quote

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

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
Least
Hollering
Literature
Alliteration
Attention
Slaughtered
Half
Hog
Whole
Noticed
Like
Vice
Vices
Students

More quotes by Truman Capote

Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
Truman Capote
Image
It’s better to look at the sky than live there
Truman Capote
Image
I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
Truman Capote
Image
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
Truman Capote
Image
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
Image
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
Truman Capote
Image
My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
Truman Capote
Image
[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
Truman Capote
Image
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
Truman Capote
Image
Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
Truman Capote
Image
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
Truman Capote
Image
That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
Truman Capote
Image
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide 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
Image
A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
Truman Capote