Famous quotes containing the words truman capote, truman, capote and/or celebrity:
“Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)
“Study men, not historians.”
—Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)
“That isn’t writing at all, it’s typing.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)
“The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)