Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s better to look at the sky than live there.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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