583 Quotes by Truman Capote

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies.

All that belonged to him, Dick, but he would never have it.Why should that sonofabitch have everything, while he had nothing?

Но сколько же сил тратим мы на скрытничанье из опасения быть опознанным. И вот нас опознали: пятеро шутов на дереве. Это ли не удача, если правильно ею воспользоваться. Можешь уже не беспокоиться о том, как ты выглядишь в чужих глазах; разбирайся, кто ты есть, как свободный человек. Главное, знать, что никто тебя не уберёт с твоего законного места. Это от неуверенности в себе люди сговариваются, чтобы отрицать разночтения.

I knew Faulkner very well. He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of his, unless you were a fourteen-year-old nymphet. Then you could be a great friend!

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.

We just sort of of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other : he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like.

You know those days when you get the mean reds?""Same as the blues?""No," she said slowly. "No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of...