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.
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
„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)
„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, kniha 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, kniha 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, kniha In Cold Blood
Perry Smith, part 2
In Cold Blood (1965)
„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)
„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.
„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)