"But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes"
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of m
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of m
View all quotes by Truman Capote"The true beloveds of this world are in their lovers eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a childs Sunday, lost voices, ones favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory."
"She beckoned to him, shining and silver, and he knew he must go: unafraid, not hesitating, he paused only at the gardens edge, as though hed forgotten something, he stopped and looked back at the bloomless, descending blue, at the boy he had left behind."
"In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. [...] However, even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune [...]."
"Disco is the best floor show in town. Its very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix."
"Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it."
"A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage."