It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two. Truman Capote More Quotes by Truman Capote More Quotes From Truman Capote It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have. Truman Capote goatsgivinglife 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 breakfast-at-tiffanysactioninspirational And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself. Truman Capote painsleepmorning It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them. Truman Capote piecescloudswriting You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. Truman Capote runningpeople The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have. Truman Capote wantedenemy Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. Truman Capote breakfast-at-tiffanysendssky But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. Truman Capote passiondarkbelieve I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes. Truman Capote circleseyehands You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. Truman Capote stranger Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent. Truman Capote talentgeniusthinking The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. Truman Capote innocencecriminalsartist I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating. Truman Capote heart-beatingmy-heartheart You can’t give your heart to a wild thing. Truman Capote heartacheheartbrokenheartbreak The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick. Truman Capote girleyegiving Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. Truman Capote aspirinmarijuanathinking You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner. Truman Capote time-on-earthlordwant Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. Truman Capote toesnovelistsviews My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. Truman Capote childhoodregretlonely In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist. Truman Capote therapistscalifornia
