Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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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?
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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There 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.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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