Truman Capote citáty
Truman Capote
Datum narození: 30. září 1924
Datum úmrtí: 25. srpen 1984
Truman Capote byl americký spisovatel, herec a novinář. Po rozvodu rodičů o něj od jeho čtyř let pečovali příbuzní, což také velmi ovlivnilo jeho tvorbu. Již během školní docházky vytvořil první literární dílka, v deseti letech se zúčastnil literární soutěže. Přesto jeho cesta k tomu, aby byl profesionálním spisovatelem, vedla přes práci tanečníka, pomocné síly v redakci časopisu, herce, atd.
Truman Capote byl homosexuál, mezi jeho milence patřil i Andy Warhol. Wikipedia
Citáty Truman Capote
„Více slz bývá prolito nad vyslyšenými modlitbami, než nad nevyslyšenými.“
Epigraf (nedokončený)
„Nestarám se, co o mně kdo řekne. Pokud to ovšem není pravda.“
Originál: (en) I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Zdroj: Tison Pugh, Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, University of Georgia Press, 2014, s. 41
„The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.“
— Truman Capote, kniha 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.“
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.“
From a 1957 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.“
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, kniha 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.“
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.“
— Truman Capote, kniha 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, kniha Other Voices, Other Rooms
Randolf
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
„I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.“
— Truman Capote, kniha In Cold Blood
Perry Smith
In Cold Blood (1965)
„Envy was constantly with him; the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.“
— Truman Capote, kniha In Cold Blood
On Dick, part 3
In Cold Blood (1965)
