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Truman Capote Quote: “No,” she said slowly. “No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is. You’ve had that feeling?” “Quite often. Some people call it angst.” “All right. Angst. But what do you do about it?” “Well, a drink helps.”

401. “No,” she said slowly. “No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is. You’ve had that feeling?” “Quite often. Some people call it angst.” “All right. Angst. But what do you do about it?” “Well, a drink helps.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “The guests stand about in petrified pairs, and there is no conversation. He notices then that many are also saddled with malevolent semblances of themselves, outward embodiments of inner decay.”

402. “The guests stand about in petrified pairs, and there is no conversation. He notices then that many are also saddled with malevolent semblances of themselves, outward embodiments of inner decay.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Joe James, dark-haired, even darker-skinned than Perry, a lithe figure who with his faded huntsman’s shirt and moccasined feet looked as though he had that instant mysteriously emerged from woodland shadows, told.”

403. “Joe James, dark-haired, even darker-skinned than Perry, a lithe figure who with his faded huntsman’s shirt and moccasined feet looked as though he had that instant mysteriously emerged from woodland shadows, told.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “I noticed a taxi stop across the street to let out a girl who ran up the steps of the Forty-second Street public library. She was through the doors before I recognized her, which was pardonable, for Holly and libraries were not an easy association to make.”

404. “I noticed a taxi stop across the street to let out a girl who ran up the steps of the Forty-second Street public library. She was through the doors before I recognized her, which was pardonable, for Holly and libraries were not an easy association to make.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “When he was in the army he’d picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and that was all right too: because it didn’t matter what you said to them, for in those transient moments lies or truth were arbitrary and you were whatever you wanted to be.”

405. “When he was in the army he’d picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and that was all right too: because it didn’t matter what you said to them, for in those transient moments lies or truth were arbitrary and you were whatever you wanted to be.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Graham Greene was a first-class writer. Until the Vatican grabbed him.”

406. “Graham Greene was a first-class writer. Until the Vatican grabbed him.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “She was seventy-four years old, but in Nye’s opinion, “looked younger – maybe ten minutes younger.”

407. “She was seventy-four years old, but in Nye’s opinion, “looked younger – maybe ten minutes younger.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “She was one of those people who can disguise themselves as an object in the room, a shadow in the corner, whose presence is a delicate happening.”

408. “She was one of those people who can disguise themselves as an object in the room, a shadow in the corner, whose presence is a delicate happening.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “It was drowning in the earth, this house, and they, all of them, were submerging with it.”

409. “It was drowning in the earth, this house, and they, all of them, were submerging with it.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Inasmuch as I was born dead, how ironic that I should die at all; yes, born dead, literally: the midwife was perverse enough to slap me into life. Or did she?”

410. “Inasmuch as I was born dead, how ironic that I should die at all; yes, born dead, literally: the midwife was perverse enough to slap me into life. Or did she?”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “A gentleman from Japan.”

411. “A gentleman from Japan.”

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Truman Capote Quote: “What have you done what have I done, like an echo in a cave that reduces all to nonsense.”

412. “What have you done what have I done, like an echo in a cave that reduces all to nonsense.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “I know how trite this is, Jaime. And for the moment certainly no help at all. But remember – there’s always somebody else. Just don’t look for the same person, that’s all.”

413. “I know how trite this is, Jaime. And for the moment certainly no help at all. But remember – there’s always somebody else. Just don’t look for the same person, that’s all.”

— Truman Capote

414. “There is no brand of intolerance so tiresome as that which results in condemning characteristics you yourself possess.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Da, in sfarsit mi s-a facut frica. Pentru ca s-ar putea sa o tin tot asa la nesfarsit. Sa nu stii ca ceva e al tau decat dupa ce te-ai descotorisit de el.”

415. “Da, in sfarsit mi s-a facut frica. Pentru ca s-ar putea sa o tin tot asa la nesfarsit. Sa nu stii ca ceva e al tau decat dupa ce te-ai descotorisit de el.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “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, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably, first in the state courts, then through the Federal courts until the ultimate tribunal is reached – the United States Supreme Court.”

416. “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, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably, first in the state courts, then through the Federal courts until the ultimate tribunal is reached – the United States Supreme Court.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “If you walk a singular path, you always carry a certain grief.”

417. “If you walk a singular path, you always carry a certain grief.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “The good people of Kansas want to murder me – and some hangman will be glad to get the work.”

418. “The good people of Kansas want to murder me – and some hangman will be glad to get the work.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “She played very well, and sometimes sang too. Sang in the hoarse, breaking tones of a boy’s adolescent voice.”

419. “She played very well, and sometimes sang too. Sang in the hoarse, breaking tones of a boy’s adolescent voice.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “That night I left a message in her mailbox: Tomorrow is Thursday.”

420. “That night I left a message in her mailbox: Tomorrow is Thursday.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Then he wrote ‘For Sale’ on the windshield. One day I heard a sucker stop and offer him forty bucks – that’s forty more than it was worth.”

421. “Then he wrote ‘For Sale’ on the windshield. One day I heard a sucker stop and offer him forty bucks – that’s forty more than it was worth.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “I didn’t know ten people who had radios.”

422. “I didn’t know ten people who had radios.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Well, she wanted to know, what did people say of her, was she remembered?”

423. “Well, she wanted to know, what did people say of her, was she remembered?”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” THE.”

424. “Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” THE.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “He went back upstairs, and sat at his desk, and felt as though he were bleeding inside, and wished very much to believe in God.”

425. “He went back upstairs, and sat at his desk, and felt as though he were bleeding inside, and wished very much to believe in God.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Mr. Capote twice won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.”

426. “Mr. Capote twice won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn’t fulfill something in me, if I don’t honestly feel it’s the best I can do, then I’m miserable.”

427. “I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn’t fulfill something in me, if I don’t honestly feel it’s the best I can do, then I’m miserable.”

— Truman Capote

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