In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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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?
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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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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