It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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