Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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