Showing posts with label Truman Capote quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truman Capote quotes. Show all posts

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Chased down with horse and hounds



“Happiness leaves such slender records; it is the dark days that are so voluminously documented.” 


Oh MY my. This was a quote by Truman Capote that rattled around in my head for years and years. But I only remembered the gist of it, something about not remembering when we've been happy. Like all Capote quotes, it was elegant, graceful and went straight to the point. I never thought I'd find it again, and even doing a google search was pretty unfruitful (to coin a phrase) for the first couple of hours or so. Then, under the tag "happiness". . . 

Oh yes.




Back in his youth, he was a sort of male literary Marilyn Monroe, probably showing his hairy leg to journalists if it would get him laid. He was like that.




But Jesus-bloody-Murphy and hell's bells, wasn't he beautiful?






What can I say? These exotic poses pre-dated the Advocate Personal Ads by quite a few decades. But I guess that pouty lounging look got him noticed. His infuriating ability to stun with a phrase did the rest.