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Truman Capote Quotes

Truman Capote quotes about love

American Novelist, Writer September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984

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Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing. Truman Capote
But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. Truman Capote
...all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil-paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "You're wonderful. Unique. I love you."
You're wonderful. Unique. I love you. Truman Capote
Grady knew no one she thought less attractive than Mink, or more preposterous than Winifred: yet together and around them they made a clear, lovely, light: it was as if, out of their ordinary stone, their massive unshaped selves, something precious had been set free, a figure musical and pure: she could not but pay it homage. Truman Capote
Ida, dear, please, do I complain? It is right a child should not love the mama the way the mama loves the child; children are ashamed of the love a mama has for them: that is part of it. But when a boy grows into a man it is right his time should be for other ladies. Truman Capote
How do you feel if you're in love? she asked. Ah, said Rosita with swooning eyes, you feel as though pepper has been sprinkled on your hear, as though tiny fish are swimming in your veins. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a..."
Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is. Truman Capote
as we watched seaward-moving ships pass between the cliffs of burning skyline, she said: 'years from now, years and years, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazillian brats, because yes, they must see this, these lights, the river-- I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.' And I said: 'Do shut up,' for I felt infuriatingly left out-- a tugboat in a... Truman Capote
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface. Truman Capote
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking..."
If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. Truman Capote
If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in..."
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "I told you: you can make yourself love anybody."
I told you: you can make yourself love anybody. Truman Capote

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