Frases de Truman Capote

„Soy un chico de obsesiones más que de pasiones.“

—  Truman Capote

„La vida es una buena obra de teatro con un tercer acto mal escrito.“

—  Truman Capote

„Que una cosa sea verdad no significa que sea convincente, ni en la vida, ni en el arte.“

—  Truman Capote

„Mike Jagger se mueve como si hiciera la parodia de la mezcla de una majorette y Fred Astaire.“

—  Truman Capote

„Todo fracaso es condimento que da sabor al éxito.“

—  Truman Capote

„Antes de negar con la cabeza, asegúrate de que la tienes.“

—  Truman Capote

„Es imposible que un hombre que goza de libertad imagine lo que representa estar privado de ella.“

—  Truman Capote

„Cuando Dios le entrega a uno un don, también le da un látigo; y el látigo es únicamente para autoflagelarse.“

—  Truman Capote

Citado en 'Música para camaleones'.

„Más lágrimas se derraman por las plegarias respondidas que por las no respondidas.“

—  Truman Capote

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».

„Soy alcohólico. Soy drogadicto. Soy homosexual. Soy un genio.“

—  Truman Capote

Citado en 'Música para camaleones'.

„Y cada pocos años nuestros cuerpos experimentan una remodelación completa; tanto si es deseable como si no lo es, nada más natural que el que cambiemos.“

—  Truman Capote

Citado en 'Desayuno en Tiffany´s

„More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.“

—  Truman Capote

Disputed

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

—  Truman Capote, libro In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood (1965)

„[You've said your material chooses you. ] That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman—-the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.“

—  Truman Capote

From a 1968 interview

„But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes“

—  Truman Capote, libro Other Voices, Other Rooms

Randolf
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

„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, libro Other Voices, Other Rooms

Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

„She had said she was afraid of Perry, and she was, but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part […]? The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal.“

—  Truman Capote, libro In Cold Blood

Part 3
In Cold Blood (1965)

„People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You know? You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie. But in a friendship you don't do that. You do exactly the reverse. You try more and more to be as completely pure and straight as you can be.“

—  Truman Capote

From a 1970 interview

„I ought at least to have made corporal. But I never did. Know why? Because the sergeant we had was tough. Because I wouldn't roll over. Jesus, I hate that stuff. I can't stand it. Though—I don't know. Some queers I really liked. As long as they didn't try anything. The most worthwhile friend I ever had, really sensitive and intelligent, he turned out to be queer.“

—  Truman Capote, libro In Cold Blood

Perry Smith, part 2
In Cold Blood (1965)