I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFinishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI remember things the way they should have been.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
TRUMAN CAPOTEEverybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIn my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPast certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA boy has to peddle his book.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
TRUMAN CAPOTEHome is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWe all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
TRUMAN CAPOTEOne of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnd in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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