The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild 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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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