Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTELife is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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