Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.
HARRY TRUMAN No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the m...
TRUMAN CAPOTE [The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can...
HARRY TRUMAN Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.
TRUMAN CAPOTE It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
HARRY TRUMAN Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
HARRY TRUMAN 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 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 Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
TRUMAN CAPOTE 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 Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
TRUMAN CAPOTE 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE She was still hugging the cat. "Poor slob," she said, tickling his head, "poor slob without a name. ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE 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 A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: d...
TRUMAN CAPOTE 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 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 Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up ...
BESS TRUMAN The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
HARRY TRUMAN ...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 We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in...
HARRY TRUMAN 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 You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
HARRY TRUMAN 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE 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 [Mick Jagger] moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
TRUMAN CAPOTE He loved politicians - even Republicans.
MARGARET TRUMAN Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I can see every monster as they come in.
TRUMAN CAPOTE 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...
TRUMAN CAPOTE 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 He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
MARGARET TRUMAN All literature is gossip.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not ...
HARRY TRUMAN 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 The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a...
HARRY TRUMAN 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 The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
HARRY TRUMAN 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 Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
HARRY TRUMAN I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another leve...
TRUMAN CAPOTE I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
TRUMAN CAPOTE 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 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 Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
HARRY TRUMAN 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 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 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 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 In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...sel...
HARRY S TRUMAN Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
HARRY S TRUMAN But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a...
HARRY S. TRUMAN