Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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