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.
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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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