“All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.”
Truman Capote
PinFailure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.PinA conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.PinAnyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.PinA man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison. PinThe best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
“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: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.”
Truman Capote
PinLife is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.PinThe good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake.PinThere is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly writtenPinI don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.PinIf you weren’t here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?PinHave you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
5 Inspirational Truman Capote Quotes About Life
“You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
Truman Capote
PinThere is only one unpardonable sin-deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.PinImagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
“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.”
Truman Capote
PinThere 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.
2 Truman Capote Quotes on Creativity
PinMost people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.PinPersonally, 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.
3 Truman Capote Quotes on Places
PinI don’t want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.PinI love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.PinVenice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
8 Truman Capote Quotes on Love and Friendship
PinFriendship 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.PinLove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.PinLove is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.PinReally being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.PinHe loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone.PinNever love a wild thing. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.PinYou can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend.PinI told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
10 Truman Capote Quotes on Literature and Writing
“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”
Truman Capote
PinTo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.PinAll literature is gossip.PinThat isn’t writing at all, it’s typing.PinFinishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
“Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.”
Truman Capote
PinI like to talk on TV about those things that aren’t worth writing about.PinYou can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.PinI 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.PinIt’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.
14 Truman Capote Quotes that Will Make You Think
“The answer is good things only happen to you if you’re good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a w***e: I’d rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”
Truman Capote
PinThere 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.PinAre the dead as lonesome as the living?PinMy major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.PinFame is only good for one thing – they will cash your check in a small town.Pin‘Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,’ she said. ‘But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.’PinWhen God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.PinWell, I’m about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.PinNo one will ever know what ‘In Cold Blood’ took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.PinI was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.PinThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.PinI can see every monster as they come in.PinIt may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.PinAprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
4 Funny Truman Capote Quotes to Ponder
PinLife is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.PinIt’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.PinSometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.PinThe good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
