Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
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
Love
Think
Thinking
Exactly
Friendship
Actually
Thing
More quotes by Truman Capote
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
Truman Capote
All artists are two-headed calves.
Truman Capote
Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
Truman Capote
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
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Truman Capote
I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
Truman Capote
[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
Truman Capote
I despise people who can't control themselves.
Truman Capote
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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
There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
Truman Capote
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
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
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've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
Truman Capote
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
Truman Capote
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
Truman Capote
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
