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 CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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