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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGreat fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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