Trumancapote Quotes

“The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable of holding two opinions in their heads at the same time.”
― Truman Capote

“Oscar Wilde is one of the people that I would have most liked to know. I'm sure I would have liked him a lot.”
― Truman Capote, Conversations With Capote

“Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.”
― Truman Capote

“I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unusual combination. Both men and women tell me things and I can relate on two levels simultaneously.”
― Truman Capote

“The main thing is the character's [Truman Capote's] interior and without getting too deep into it, there are lots of parallels in Phil's [Philip Seymour Hoffman's] life, which I knew and only became more evident with time. There was something about that character that he could own that nobody else could.”
― Bennett Miller

“I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citizens, but I've become well enough acquainted with law-enforcement agencies across the country to know that's just not the case. Of course, a certain small percentage of policemen are irresponsible...but that doesn't justify the current unjust barrage of propaganda against a tribe of men who are hard-working, underpaid and daily risking their lives to protect us. I'm sure there are isolated instances of police brutality, but the rising crime rate and urban violence constitute a far, far more pressing problem.”
― Truman Capote

“I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another level, does it really matter if anybody is free of any negative feeling about anything? No matter how much you love somebody, you know, there's some part of him you don't like.”
― Truman Capote

“[] le pregunté abiertamente qué había hecho yo para desagradarle [] dijo: «Eres un marica. Yo sólo te estoy reformando» Tenía razón. Yo era una especie de marica, y en el instante en que lo dijo comprendí que no había nada que yo pudiera hacer para que cambiara de opinión, si no era convencerme a mí mismo y aceptar y defender el hecho.”
― Truman Capote, The Thanksgiving Visitor

“He loved words, and he would admit that he was playing with them all the time. He was obsessive about the rhythm of the sentence, and would add a word, subtract a word. [about Truman Capote]”
― Deborah Kerr