Truman Capote

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to. ↗

— Truman Capote

#truth #cancer

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. ↗

— Truman Capote

#change #life #change

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. ↗

— Truman Capote

#horror #imagination #imagination

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way. ↗

— Truman Capote

#humor #humor

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 Capote

#friendly #friends #friendship #full-time #just

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours. ↗

— Truman Capote

#love

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 Capote

#love

It'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. ↗

— Truman Capote

#life

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky. ↗

— Truman Capote

#dreams

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner. ↗

— Truman Capote

#inspirational