Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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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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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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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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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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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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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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