You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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 quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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