The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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?
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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