Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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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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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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