The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right 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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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