Truman Capote
Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capotewas an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany'sand the true crime novel In Cold Blood, which he labeled a "nonfiction novel". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced of Capote novels, stories, and plays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 September 1924
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
think of nothing things think of wind
There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.
Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.
Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.
That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote
But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.
I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.