I remember things the way they should have been.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFinishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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