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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEEverybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Good 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.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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