Truman Capote quote: "I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with each other for political power in their own culture. The basis for this behavior is a desire for notoriety."

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the m...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

That, Verena managed after some suspenseful seconds, is, she said, regarding her gloved hands, rema...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are bor...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due t...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easter...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in t...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

And nice to have seen you, Sue. Good luck, he called after her as she disappeared down the path, a p...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further...
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
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I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

You know the days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blu...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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She was still hugging the cat. "Poor slob," she said, tickling his head, "poor slob without a name. ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: d...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Son, I'd say you were going at it the wrong end first, said the Judge, turning up his coat-collar. H...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells,...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

...he called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our b...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizz...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words m...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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He [Mick Jagger] moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

I can see every monster as they come in.
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year
TRUMAN CAPOTE

it's a well-known photograph. This was 1984, just three months before he died.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

I never cared for his writings one whit. Boring ... boring.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

We're doing John first, and then bringing out Lee.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

This is the book I was always meant to write,
TRUMAN CAPOTE

The better the actor the more stupid he is
TRUMAN CAPOTE

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas. , "Answered Prayers" (Unspoiled Monsters).
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Other voices, other rooms
TRUMAN CAPOTE

When I think of how good my book can be, it scares me.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

The reason we made it a masked dance was simply because, well, it's a completely free thing, and by ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

It isn't writing at all - it's typing
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even mo...
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it
TRUMAN CAPOTE

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

All literature is gossip.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

I only object when any one particular group...gets a stranglehold on American criticism and squeezes...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Too Brief a Treat
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in so...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the mu...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empt...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may c...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing wit...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citize...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another leve...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I beca...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Never love a wild thing... you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always luggin...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frus...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quiet sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frus...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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 hou...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streakin...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: th...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It...
TRUMAN CAPOTE

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

We beat them in the second half. Unfortunately, we played 40 minutes, and you have to play 80 to win...
ADRIAN CAPOTE

It usually takes us a while to get our rhythm. If we can hold them in the beginning, we usually win....
ADRIAN CAPOTE

Noel's a weapon for us on the outside. He's been tough as nails all year long.
ADRIAN CAPOTE

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.
HARRY TRUMAN

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can...
HARRY TRUMAN

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY TRUMAN

The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.
TRUMAN DOCTRINE

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
HARRY TRUMAN

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only on...
HARRY TRUMAN

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be...
BESS TRUMAN

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be you...
BESS TRUMAN

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of ...
BESS TRUMAN

It's nice to win.
BESS TRUMAN

It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
BESS TRUMAN

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
BESS TRUMAN

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
BESS TRUMAN

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall wan...
BESS TRUMAN

I have a strong tennis arm.
BESS TRUMAN

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejud...
BESS TRUMAN

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straigh...
BESS TRUMAN

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes oppo...
HARRY TRUMAN

All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing an...
HARRY TRUMAN

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?.
HARRY TRUMAN

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with h...
HARRY TRUMAN

Activities like that are really good for the city and the activist community.
CARL TRUMAN

There's probably ideology connected to each group that would conflict.
CARL TRUMAN

No one really works together and I don't think that people mean to be that way, they just don't real...
CARL TRUMAN

It's just the city, kind of, honestly, college students are pretty apathetic.
CARL TRUMAN

It seemed like he was getting a lot of [expletive] for that, just being out there. It didn't seem li...
CARL TRUMAN

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY TRUMAN

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up ...
BESS TRUMAN

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
HARRY TRUMAN

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in...
HARRY TRUMAN

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
HARRY TRUMAN

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
MARGARET TRUMAN

He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of...
MARGARET TRUMAN

He loved politicians - even Republicans.
MARGARET TRUMAN

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
MARGARET TRUMAN

I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not ...
HARRY TRUMAN

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a...
HARRY TRUMAN

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
HARRY TRUMAN

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
HARRY TRUMAN

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You rem...
HARRY TRUMAN

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
HARRY TRUMAN

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.
HARRY TRUMAN

Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand fo...
HARRY TRUMAN

It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
BESS TRUMAN

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall...
BESS TRUMAN

It's nice to win.
BESS TRUMAN

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these book...
BESS TRUMAN

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on str...
BESS TRUMAN

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
BESS TRUMAN

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
HARRY TRUMAN

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own ho...
MARGARET TRUMAN

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY TRUMAN

They caught us easing up. We got careless just long enough for them to take advantage within the 18-...
JENNIFER TRUMAN

Ariel took a lot of shots from all over the field. She was bound to find an opening for the goal.
JENNIFER TRUMAN

All three girls play hard. The three of them are playing in such a great rhythm, not just between ea...
JENNIFER TRUMAN

The boys went to Burger King and got him some of those crowns.
JENNIFER TRUMAN

We have a very strong defense, and do a good job of frustrating opponents.
JENNIFER TRUMAN

We had a game the night before and I think the kids may have been tired. We didn't play well, and wi...
JENNIFER TRUMAN

I don't know what happened over the span of the 10-minute halftime. It was like I had put 11 differe...
JENNIFER TRUMAN

The girls just couldn't seem to get past the mud. The mud stopped every shot cold.
JENNIFER TRUMAN

It's been very frustrating having to delay putting the pieces together prior to league because of th...
JENNIFER TRUMAN

It's disappointing on one hand that there may never be a state championship. In our section we get t...
JENNIFER TRUMAN

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.
HARRY TRUMAN

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Ser...
HARRY TRUMAN

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
HARRY S TRUMAN

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN

The buck stops here!
HARRY S TRUMAN

Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representativ...
HARRY S TRUMAN

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
HARRY S TRUMAN

They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation....
HARRY S TRUMAN

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a ...
HARRY S TRUMAN

The Buck Stops Here
HARRY S TRUMAN

Shortly after I was elected, in Nineteen Hundred and Forty-eight, I made up my mind that I would not...
HARRY S TRUMAN

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they thr...
HARRY S TRUMAN

The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special repre...
HARRY S TRUMAN

When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here,...
HARRY S TRUMAN

You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizona. Its in Tombstone, Ariz. , and this...
HARRY S TRUMAN

There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the Presiden...
HARRY S TRUMAN

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
HARRY S TRUMAN

Im proud that Im a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a poli...
HARRY S TRUMAN

On May 14 I was informed that the Provisional Government of Israel was planning to proclaim a Jewish...
HARRY S TRUMAN

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
HARRY S TRUMAN

Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann...
HARRY S TRUMAN

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S. TRUMAN

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY S. TRUMAN

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN

I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
HARRY S. TRUMAN

Start slow and taper off.
HARRY S. TRUMAN

That government is best which governs least.
HARRY S. TRUMAN

I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a po...
HARRY S. TRUMAN

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's v...
HARRY S. TRUMAN

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the su...
HARRY S. TRUMAN

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
HARRY S TRUMAN

I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with each other for political power in their own culture. The basis for this behavior is a desire for notoriety.

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I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with each other for political power in their own culture. The basis for this behavior is a desire for notoriety.

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