583 Quotes by Truman Capote

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. Autumns reward western Kansas for the evils that the remaining seasons impose: winter’s rough Colorado winds and hip-high, sheep-slaughtering snows; the slushes and the strange land fogs of spring; and summer, when even crows seek the puny shade, and the tawny infinitude of wheatstalks bristle, blaze.

She was forever on her way out...

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

The buggy is mine; that is, it was bought for me when I was born. It is made of wicker, rather unraveled, and the wheels wobble like a drunkard’s legs. But it is a faithful object; springtimes, we take it to the woods and fill it with flowers, herbs, wild fern for our porch pots; in the summer, we pile it with picnic paraphernalia and sugar-cane fishing poles and roll it down to the edge of a creek;.

Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.

Oscar Wilde is one of the people that I would have most liked to know. I’m sure I would have liked him a lot.

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

Freedom may be the most important thing in life, but there’s such a thing as too much freedom.