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

„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)

„[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

„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)

„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

„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)

„Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.“

—  Truman Capote

From a 1957 interview

„All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.“

—  Truman Capote

From a 1952 interview

„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.

„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)