Part 3 Quotations Flashcards
Description of Dick on the beach in Miami
‘Envy was constantly with him; the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have’
Description of Perry in the laundrette, waiting for Dick - having just returned to Kansas
‘The sound of Dick’s voice was like an injection of some potent narcotic’
Capote describing Dick’s plan to leave Perry, shortly before their arrest
‘He was like a wife that just he got rid of. And there was one way to do it: Say nothing - just go’
Perry describing Mr Clutter shortly before killing him
‘I didn’t want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat’
Perry talking about Dick shortly before he killed the Clutters
‘The glory of having everyone at his mercy. That’s what excited him’
Perry describing looking at the floor of the Clutters for a coin shortly before killing them
‘I thought of that goddam dollar. Silver dollar The shame. Disgust’
Alvin Dewey reflecting on how random the Clutter killings were
‘The crime was a psychological accident, virtually an impersonal act; the victims might as well have been killed by lightning’
Capote describing Alvin Dewey’s views of Perry after hearing his confession
‘Perry Smith’s life had been no bed of rose but pitiful, an ugly and lonely progress toward one mirage or another’
