They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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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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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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