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

„Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.“

—  Truman Capote, libro Other Voices, Other Rooms

Miss Amy
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

„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

From a 1957 interview

„All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.“

—  Truman Capote

From a 1952 interview

„It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.“

—  Truman Capote

Reported in Steven D. Price, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), p. viii.

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

—  Truman Capote

Disputed

„Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.“

—  Truman Capote

Quoted in The London Review of Books http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n01/hasl02_.html (6 January 2000)

„There is considerable hypocrisy in conventionalism. Any thinking person is aware of this paradox; but in dealing with conventional people it is advantageous to treat them as though they were not hypocrites. It isn't a question of faithfulness to your own concepts; it is a matter of compromise so that you can remain an individual without the constant threat of conventional pressures.“

—  Truman Capote, libro In Cold Blood

Willy-Jay
In Cold Blood (1965)

„The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.“

—  Truman Capote, libro In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood (1965)