Marella Agnelli:
So you think your book is worth a human life?
Truman Capote:
When you're talking to them, they seem like perfectly nice boys. To be frank, I'm much more concerned for my safety around Norman Mailer.
Gore Vidal:
[
on Truman's voice] To the lucky person who has never heard it, I can only say: imagine what a brussel sprout would sound like, if a brussel sprout could talk.
Slim Keith:
[
of Truman's lover Jack] He has the social graces of a syringe.
Diana Vreeland:
You can forgive a person a lot who really *enjoys* you.
D.A.'s Secretary:
I'm sorry. The D.A. doesn't take calls from strange women.
Truman Capote:
Who says I'm strange?
[
about the Kansas townspeople]
Truman Capote:
Do you think everyone keeps calling me "lady" to be mean, or can they honestly not tell?
Nelle Harper Lee:
America is not a country where the small gesture goes noticed. We're not a country like France, where charm -- something light or effervescent -- can survive. We want everything you have, and we want it as fast as you can turn it out.
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