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.
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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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