You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPast 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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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.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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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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