583 Quotes by Truman Capote

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.