583 Quotes by Truman Capote

The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

Traveling wears me out.

think of nothing things think of wind

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.