I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe brain may take advice, but not the heart.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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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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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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