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
When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas. , "Answered Prayers" (Unspoiled Monsters).
It isn't writing at all - it's typing
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
the part that he has been waiting for. He's 38 years old. He's never led a movie successfully. When I say 'successfully,' I mean like to the point where it took root in the culture and became a fixture in the culture ... For all of the respect that he gets, it hasn't happened. And this is a role that required everything he absolutely had. This thing took a lot out of him.
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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.
Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.