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.
TRUMAN CAPOTELife is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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