It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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