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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’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.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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