Innocence, preserved by the absence of experience had always isolated Miss Sook, left her incapable of encompassing an evil so complete.
The Thanksgiving Visitor p.21

…she would flirt with anything that walked or crawled – no, that’s unfair, for it was really a form of generosity, of simply being alive.
The Thanksgiving Visitor p.47

It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going?
The Thanksgiving Visitor p.50

[On the reaction of people about killing oneself] The only hitch was, I wouldn’t actually be able to see or hear any of this: how could I, being dead? And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead.
The Thanksgiving Visitor p.50-51

I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.
I personally like things that are routine but this is a good quote to describe Truman Capote’s outlook on the world. Breakfast at Tiffany’s p.20

”If a man doesn’t like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn’t like either of them, well, I’m in trouble anyway: he don’t like girls.”
Holiday Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s p.34

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling that real beauty, if only because it contains a paradox.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s p.38

They’ve had the old clap-yo’-hands (gyonoreia) so many times it amounts to applause.
I bet you’re as happy as I am to finally have a funny one here again, huh? Breakfast at Tiffany’s p.65

Shoot, boy, the country’s just fulla folks what knows everythin and don’t understand nothin, just fullofem.
Other Voices, Other Rooms Ch.2, p.34

All children are morbid, it’s their saving grace.
I think the same goes for gay men too. Other Voices, Other Rooms Ch.4, p.45

…love the Devil like you do Jesus: because he is a powerful man, and will do you a good turn if he knows you trust him.
Children On Their Birthdays p.122

You can’t hate so much unless you love too.
Children On Their Birthdays p.129

…if you are not admired no one will take the time to disapprove.
Children On Their Birthdays p.130

Flying around inside us is something called the Soul, and when you die you’re never dead; yes, and when we’re alive we’re never alive.
Shut A Final Door p.143

Failure was definite, a certainty, and there is always peace in certainties.
Shut A Final Door p.145

Click here to continue randomly surfing quotes.
Click here to go back to the quotes home page.