The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
Truman Capoteall 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 CapoteTag: god
I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
Truman CapoteIf you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
Truman CapoteShe had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise she was perfect.
Truman CapoteWriting has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman CapoteTag: on-writing
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
Truman CapoteTag: writing
The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.
Truman CapoteTag: character personality
Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character.
Truman CapoteTag: travel foreigners
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
Truman CapoteTag: emptiness
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