583 Quotes by Truman Capote

Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

I despise people who can't control themselves.

But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.