The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFailure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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I can see every monster as they come 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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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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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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