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?
TRUMAN CAPOTEOne 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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 a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety 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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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The 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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