The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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