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 CAPOTEHow do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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