100 Top Killer Quotes From Truman Capote
Truman Streckfus Persons, better known as Truman Capote is an American novelist, playwright, actor and screenwriter,who wrote rich literature including short stories, nonfiction novels and plays. His prose shimmered with intellect, quality and clarity. Some of his literary classics include In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Other Voices, Miriam, Other Rooms and To Kill a mocking Bird. This most famous writer of post-war era had a difficult childhood. Being a lonely child, he suffered the brunt of his parent’s divorce and frequent relocations. Due to prolonged absence of his mother from his life, he taught himself how to read and write. Though Capote received schooling at various places, he didn’t complete his education. Upon finishing high school, he was hired as a copyboy for The New Yorker though he started his writing career at the age of 11. Till date, around 20 daily soaps and movies have adapted his plots. In 1970s, he rose to fame as a celebrity writer and started appearing in talk shows. The ‘Spiritual Orphan’ fell prey to narcotics and finally died at 59. He left behind two unfinished novels, whose climax remains a mystery. His life is an inspiring tale of relentless efforts, overcoming challenges and accomplishing success with hard work. As a writer he produced quite a few good quotes. Some of Capote’s most memorable quotes appear below and these quotations come from his interviews, essays, short stories, and even from fictional characters, that he portrayed in his writings. A collection of quotations and sayings by Truman Capote!
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....
It’s better to look at the sky than live there
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.
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.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky
Would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
We don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.
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.
Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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.
It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
