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 CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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 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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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