Frases de Truman Capote
Truman Capote
Fecha de nacimiento: 30. Septiembre 1924
Fecha de muerte: 25. Agosto 1984
Para la película del mismo nombre, véase Capote .
Truman Streckfus Persons , más conocido como Truman Capote, fue un periodista y escritor estadounidense, principalmente conocido por Breakfast at Tiffany's y su novela-documento A sangre fría .
Frases Truman Capote
„Cuando Dios le entrega a uno un don, también le da un látigo; y el látigo es únicamente para autoflagelarse.“
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».
„Soy alcohólico. Soy drogadicto. Soy homosexual. Soy un genio.“
Citado en 'Música para camaleones'.
„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)
„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)
„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)