In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood writing is rewriting.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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 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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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 prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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