To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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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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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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