If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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