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 CAPOTEReading 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 CAPOTEFinishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThey 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 CAPOTEFailure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTEEverybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGreat fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTELove is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIn my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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