The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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