Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTELife is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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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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