Quote #10

'The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection'

More from Truman Capote

  1. 'More tears are shed for answered prayers than for unanswered ones.' (The dedication in his last, unfinished work)
  2. 'I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.'
  3. About Jack Kerouac: 'That's not writing; That's typing.'
  4. 'Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.'
  5. 'Good taste is the death of art.'
  6. 'I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that is why I started to write…
  7. 'As everyone knows, a fag is a homosexual gentleman who has just left the room.'
  8. 'Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.'

All Truman Capote quotes