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
It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
She sounds the way bananas taste.
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.
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.
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 haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.
My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.