Capote Quotes

“That isn't writing at all, it's typing.”
― Truman Capote

“I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.”
― Truman Capote

“The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable of holding two opinions in their heads at the same time.”
― Truman Capote

“Oscar Wilde is one of the people that I would have most liked to know. I'm sure I would have liked him a lot.”
― Truman Capote, Conversations With Capote

“There's the one and only T.C. There was nobody like me before, and there ain't gonna be anybody like me after I'm gone...”
― Truman Capote

“Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.”
― Truman Capote

“The main thing is the character's [Truman Capote's] interior and without getting too deep into it, there are lots of parallels in Phil's [Philip Seymour Hoffman's] life, which I knew and only became more evident with time. There was something about that character that he could own that nobody else could.”
― Bennett Miller

“What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude”
― Truman Capote

“Neden olmasın? Olabilirdi, çünkü gökyüzü her yerde aynıydı, her şey yalnızca burada aşağıda farklıydı.”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“Надбягващи се алени звезди блещукаха на кръглия таван и Грейди, напръскана от светлината им, замаяна от техния вихър, потъна в това небе-убежище; някакъв далечен глас от земята стигна до нея: чуваш ли? чу ли как казах, че си аристократка? Като насън си помисли, че гласът е на Клайд, макар че звучеше съвсем като Питър! Косата й се вееше победоносно и палеше пространството. Танцуваха, докато музиката секна, и в същия момент звездите угаснаха.”
― Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

“I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citizens, but I've become well enough acquainted with law-enforcement agencies across the country to know that's just not the case. Of course, a certain small percentage of policemen are irresponsible...but that doesn't justify the current unjust barrage of propaganda against a tribe of men who are hard-working, underpaid and daily risking their lives to protect us. I'm sure there are isolated instances of police brutality, but the rising crime rate and urban violence constitute a far, far more pressing problem.”
― Truman Capote

“I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another level, does it really matter if anybody is free of any negative feeling about anything? No matter how much you love somebody, you know, there's some part of him you don't like.”
― Truman Capote

“Así como algunos jóvenes practican el piano o el violín cuatro o cinco horas diarias, igual me ejercitaba yo con mis plumas y papeles.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

“She looked at me blankly, and rubbed her nose, as though it tickled: a gesture, seeing often repeated, I came to recognize as a signal that one was trespassing. Like many people with a bold fondness for volunteering intimate information, anything that suggested a direct question, a pinning-down, put her on guard.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee.”
― Gerald Clarke