Quote #1431

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1412

"I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1392

"You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1371

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1355

"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1339

"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1304

"The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1287

"Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1266

"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"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1246

"I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1239

"It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1221

"Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1199

"Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1174

"As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1152

"Have you never heard what the wise man say: all of the future exists in the past"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1130

"Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1102

"We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1074

"[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1059

"Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook"
- Truman Capote

Quote #1036

"[C]locks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?"
- Truman Capote