Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
7 quotes
"Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living."
"Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty dollars."
"But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus."
"The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird."
"...he called after her as shedisappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry..."
"Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims."
"Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there."