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 CAPOTEImagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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