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
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.
Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived
Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
[C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?
She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.
New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
All literature is gossip.
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.
But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with words that smacked of pinewoods or prairie. One went: Don’t wanna sleep, Don’t wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin’ through the pastures of the sky; and this one seemed to gratify her the most, for often she continued it long after her hair hard dried, after the sun had gone and there were lighted windows in the dusk.