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Truman Capote frases e citações
“Veneza é igual a comer uma caixa de chocolates com licor, de uma só vez.”
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
em 26 de novembro de 1961, conforme citado em "Contemporary quotations" - Página 197, de James Beasley Simpson - Crowell, 1964 - 500 páginas
“Dinheiro não tem a mínima importância desde que a gente tenha muito.”
citado em "Duailibi Essencial: Minidicionário com mais de 4.500 frases essenciais" - Página 108, de Roberto Duailibi, Marina Pechlivanis - Elsevier Brazil, 2006, ISBN 8535219579, 9788535219579, 496 páginas
“O fracasso é um tempero indispensável ao êxito.”
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote in: The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places : [collection of Essays], Truman Capote, Random House Publishing Group, 1973, ISBN 0394487516, 9780394487519, 419 páginas, como citado em The Executive's Book of Quotations - Página 111 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=QCUUKOvYh70C&pg=PA111, Julia Vitullo-Martin, J. Robert Moskin - 1994
Truman Capote: Frases em inglês
“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)
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.”
In Cold Blood (1965)
“But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes”
Randolf
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
At Jesus Fever's funeral
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
From a 1957 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
From a 1952 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
“A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage.”
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
From "Self-Portrait" (1972)
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)
“Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.”
Miss Amy
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)