583 Quotes by Truman Capote

I’ve got to stay awake,′ she said, punching her cheeks until the roses came. ‘There isn’t time to sleep, I’d look consumptive, I’d sag like a tenement, and that wouldn’t be fair: a girl can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.

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

It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going?

Miss Langman was often, in interviews, described as a witty conversationalist; how can a woman be witty when she hasn’t a sense of humor? – and she has none, which was her central flaw as a person and as an artist.

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can’t wait.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist... he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love... poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

It’s redundant to die in Los Angeles.

And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?