Truman Capote citáty

„Člověk, který nesní, je jako člověk, který se nepotí: střádá v sobě spoustu jedu.“

—  Truman Capote

„Realista je člověk, který má správný odstup od svých ideálů.“

—  Truman Capote

„Duši mají jen vrahové.“

—  Truman Capote

„Více slz bývá prolito nad vyslyšenými modlitbami, než nad nevyslyšenými.“

—  Truman Capote

Epigraf (nedokončený)

„Nestarám se, co o mně kdo řekne. Pokud to ovšem není pravda.“

—  Truman Capote

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

„Úspěch je skoro to poslední, co se člověku odpouští.“

—  Truman Capote

„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, 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.“

—  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, 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.“

—  Truman Capote

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

„Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.“

—  Truman Capote, kniha Local Color

Local Color (1950)

„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)