Truman Capote Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.

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  Beautiful, Love Is, Thinking

• Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

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  Ocean, Bird, Sides

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.76, Vintage

• A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.

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  Beautiful, Bird, Beautiful Day

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.53, Vintage

• I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.

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  Believe, Flower, People

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.126, Vintage

• ...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.

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  Memories, Loneliness, Night

  Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, James Baldwin, James Purdy (1962). “Some postwar American writers”

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