Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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