The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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There 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.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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