Quotes About Capote In Cold Blood

#1. Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Sigmund Freud

#2. As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies.

Truman Capote

#3. Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.

Victor Davis Hanson

#5. No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

Truman Capote

#6. I am not staying with the murderer," she said, her words muffled by his jacket. "I am not staying with the victim Abel Tannatek or the culprit Abel Tannatek. I am staying with the storyteller.

Antonia Michaelis

#7. All that belonged to him, Dick, but he would never have it.Why should that sonofabitch have everything, while he had nothing?

Truman Capote

#8. Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

Ali Landry

#9. He called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry ...

Truman Capote

#10. There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#11. Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Louis L'Amour

#12. Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.

Truman Capote

#13. Mistake:the unshoveled snow was knee-deep.I kept right on wading through it. "This is because I'm a good person," I assured Doofus. "I am going to heaven,though hopefully not by way of the convent.

Jennifer Echols

#14. Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

Charles Stanley

#15. I have to protect you Kisa-Anna. I believe I was made to protect you.

Tillie Cole

#16. I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

Toby Jones