Frases célebres de Truman Capote
Citado en 'Música para camaleones'.
“Más lágrimas se derraman por las plegarias respondidas que por las no respondidas.”
epígrafe de Santa Teresa, elegido por Truman Capote para su última obra inacabada.
Traducción al inglés usada por Capote: «More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones».
Truman Capote Frases y Citas
Truman Capote: Frases en inglés
“It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.”
Reported in Steven D. Price, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), p. viii.
From a 1957 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
From a 1970 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
From a 1968 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
Quoted in The London Review of Books http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n01/hasl02_.html (6 January 2000)
“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
In Cold Blood (1965)
“But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes”
Randolf
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
At Jesus Fever's funeral
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
From a 1957 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
From a 1952 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
“A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage.”
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
From "Self-Portrait" (1972)
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
“Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.”
Miss Amy
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)