Frases de Truman Capote

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

—  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'.

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

—  Truman Capote

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

—  Truman Capote

„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».

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

—  Truman Capote

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

—  Truman Capote

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

—  Truman Capote

Citado en 'Música para camaleones'.

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

—  Truman Capote

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

—  Truman Capote

„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

„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)

„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.

„Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: after reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.“

—  Truman Capote

From a 1957 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)

„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
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)

„[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
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)

„The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.“

—  Truman Capote, libro Other Voices, Other Rooms

Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

„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)