583 Quotes by Truman Capote

It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes.

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.

You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.

You are a human being with a free will. Which puts you above the animal level. But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman – you are as an animal – “an.

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

When you’re grown up, will we still be friends?

I don’t use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I’m a horizontal writer. I think better when I’m lying down.

It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms.

You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you can learn how to control it the flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you.