583 Quotes by Truman Capote

Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.

No hay que entregarles el corazón a los seres salvajes: cuanto más se los entregas, más fuertes se hacen. Hasta que se sienten lo suficientemente fuertes como para huir al bosque. O subirse volando a un árbol. Y luego a otro árbol más alto. Y luego al cielo. Así terminará usted, si se entrega a alguna criatura salvaje. Terminará con la mirada fija en el cielo.

A kind of silence, if I may say, was walking through the house, and, like most silence, it was not silent at all: it rapped on the doors, echoed in the clocks, creaked on the stairs, leaned forward to peer into my face and explode.

Well, it wasn't no revelation to me cause I always knew she was a freak.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

But he does look stupid.'Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

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.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.