Infamous Quotes

  • Marella Agnelli: So you think your book is worth a human life?

  • Truman Capote: When you're talking to them, they seem like perfectly nice boys. To be frank, I'm much more concerned for my safety around Norman Mailer.

  • Gore Vidal: [on Truman's voice] To the lucky person who has never heard it, I can only say: imagine what a brussels sprout would sound like, if a brussels sprout could talk.

  • Slim Keith: [of Truman's lover Jack] He has the social graces of a syringe.

  • Diana Vreeland: You can forgive a person a lot who really *enjoys* you.

  • D.A.'s Secretary: I'm sorry. The D.A. doesn't take calls from strange women.

    Truman Capote: Who says I'm strange?

  • [about the Kansas townspeople]

    Truman Capote: Do you think everyone keeps calling me "lady" to be mean, or can they honestly not tell?

  • Nelle Harper Lee: America is not a country where the small gesture goes noticed. We're not a country like France, where charm -- something light or effervescent -- can survive. We want everything you have, and we want it as fast as you can turn it out.

  • Diana Vreeland: Here's a word I loathe: eccentric. Eccentric is a word that boring people use to describe someone I think of as interesting. A great many people think of me as eccentric simply because when I have my shoes polished, I have the entire shoe polished. Top, sides and soles. Some people think it eccentric that every morning I have my maid iron my money. When I told Truman I had my maid iron my money, you know what he said? Here's what he didn't say: "How eccentric." Here's what he did say: "How wonderful."

  • Truman Capote: The only way to deal with vulgarity is to rise above it.

  • Perry Smith: ...I am not a character. I'm a human-fucking-being.

  • Truman Capote: Imagine being told your work lacked kindness by a four-time killer!

  • Truman Capote: Artists have the power, through our imagination to escape and degenerate world and create a better one.

  • Perry Smith: What is punishment? Being in jail isn't punishment, if you didn't like it on the outside. And neither is death, if it was painful to live.

Extended Reading
  • Ressie 2022-04-21 09:03:50

    I watched it after watching The Tinkerer, and I still felt awkward when I heard the protagonist's voice. It seems a little bit like going up in the late stage. It's very strange when I watched Capote, but I think the protagonist's voice is quite natural...

  • Athena 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    All our lives, we've been looking for