583 Quotes by Truman Capote

That’s the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.

Good. But why written in three styles of script?” To which Nancy had replied: “Because I’m not grown-up enough to be one person with one kind of signature.

Of course, I failed in several of the areas I invaded, but it is true that one learns more from a failure than one does from a success.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.

You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can’t do unless there’s something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.

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

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend.

I don’t mean I’d mind being rich and famous. That’s very much on my schedule, and someday I’ll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I’d like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.