Truman Capote Quotes
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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
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...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.
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I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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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 reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.
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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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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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I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
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I've never been a teacher in my life.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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I'm not a philosopher.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
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With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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