{"author":"Truman Capote","author_id":"Truman+Capote","total_quotes":88,"quotes":[{"text":"She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her clothes, the blues and grays and lack of luster that made her, herself, shine so.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["clothes","fashion","groomed","luster"],"id":231,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"},{"text":"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["geography","boundaries","knows "],"id":8491,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"},{"text":"The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman  because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["england","u","k"],"id":11467,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"},{"text":"The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["character","personality"],"id":14211,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"},{"text":"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["writing"],"id":18010,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"},{"text":"Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["alive","city","description","human","life","summer"],"id":19950,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"},{"text":"The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["honesty"],"id":22374,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"},{"text":"The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["perry-smith","suicide"],"id":47060,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"},{"text":"Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["law"],"id":48657,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"},{"text":"Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.","author":"Truman Capote","tags":["fear","horror","imagination"],"id":49913,"author_id":"Truman+Capote"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":88,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}