I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
Truman CapoteRead
There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.
Interpretation
Acknowledging the vastness of human experience and knowledge reminds us of our limitations.
Truman Capote's quote suggests that there is an immense world of knowledge and events that occurred before our own lives, which often feel more significant and real due to their historical distance. By recognizing our ignorance about these past occurrences, we open ourselves up to a deeper understanding and appreciation of life’s complexities and narratives.
In practice
During a lecture about history, one might use this quote to remind students of the importance of learning from the past.
I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
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.
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.
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.
a problem well put is half solved.
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