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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnd in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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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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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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