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 CAPOTEPersonally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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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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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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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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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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