Truman Capote Quotes - Page 10

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him stay in Moscow. We talked to him for about half an hour, and my Italian friend didn't think the guy was worth filing a story about. Just another paranoid hysteric; the Moscow woods were rampant with those. I never thought about him again, not until many years later. Not until after the assassina­tion when I saw his picture flashed on television.

There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.

Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.

When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

I'm scarcely an enfant!

Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.