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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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