Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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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 just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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