Truman Capote nejznámější citáty
„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
„Více slz bývá prolito nad vyslyšenými modlitbami, než nad nevyslyšenými.“
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Truman Capote: Citáty anglicky
“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.
From a 1957 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
From a 1970 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
From a 1968 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
Truman Capote kniha Other Voices, Other Rooms
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
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)
Truman Capote kniha In Cold Blood
Perry Smith
In Cold Blood (1965)
Truman Capote kniha In Cold Blood
On Dick, part 3
In Cold Blood (1965)
Truman Capote kniha Other Voices, Other Rooms
At Jesus Fever's funeral
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
From a 1957 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
Truman Capote kniha Other Voices, Other Rooms
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
Truman Capote kniha In Cold Blood
Part 4
In Cold Blood (1965)
Truman Capote kniha In Cold Blood
Perry Smith, part 2
In Cold Blood (1965)
Truman Capote kniha In Cold Blood
Part 3
In Cold Blood (1965)
From a 1952 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
“A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage.”
Truman Capote kniha Other Voices, Other Rooms
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
From "Self-Portrait" (1972)
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
Truman Capote kniha In Cold Blood
Willy-Jay
In Cold Blood (1965)
Truman Capote kniha Other Voices, Other Rooms
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
“Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.”
Truman Capote kniha Other Voices, Other Rooms
Miss Amy
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
