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 CAPOTEA boy has to peddle his book.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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 enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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