I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPast 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
TRUMAN CAPOTELove is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnd in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPersonally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYes: 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHave you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIn my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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