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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReally being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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