You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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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 don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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