Truman Capote Quotes About Morning

Quotes about: Morning

• There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Dark, Swimming

• I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

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  Morning, Mean, Ego

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

• What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.

  Truman Capote

  Baby, Morning, Wall

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• ...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.

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  Morning, Real, People

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.139, Vintage

• I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

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  Morning, Wake Up, Breakfast

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

• And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

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  Morning, Pain, Sleep

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.74, Vintage

• To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Adults, Wake Up

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.362, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execu­tion in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Reading, Night

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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