See, this is exactly how it happens. This is the reasoning being employed today, right?
Giovanni Agnelli, FIAT WWII:
“The Agnelli family say that Giovanni never believed in fascism and was only with Mussolini for business reasons. They saw themselves living in an amoral world, and he was only doing what anyone smart would do.…
Excerpt From
Capote's Women
Laurence Leamer
#bookstodon #capoteswomen #capotesswans #fiat #agnelli #giovanniagnelli
“When C.Z. said she tended her gardens, she did not mean that literally. She wasn’t about to intrude in the servants’ world. “I love flowers, and I want to know all about them,” she said with obvious sincerity. “But I don’t want to take away a job from the gardener. I love horses, but it doesn’t mean I have to do the manual labor part.”
Capote's Women
Laurence Leamer
#bookstodon #capoteswomen #capotesswans #czguest
C.Z. Guest: “‘I always thought when you married it was for life,’ C.Z. said. ‘You had to stick with it and be brave and cope with the problems.’ When C.Z. was asked how she stayed married to Winston [Frederick Churchill Guest], she did not talk about love, companionship, loyalty, mutual interest, or children but something far more mundane and impersonal: ‘Manners have been very important in keeping us together,’ she said.”
Capote's Women
Laurence Leamer
#bookstodon #capoteswomen #capotesswans
Gloria Guinness née Rubio y Alatorre: “A woman’s best friend is not a diamond but a little black suit,” Gloria wrote in Harper’s Bazaar in 1963. That was practically all you needed. After all, if you had that little black suit and knew how to use it, you could eventually obtain a slew of diamonds.”
Excerpt From
Capote's Women
Laurence Leamer
#bookstodon #capoteswomen #capotesswans #gloriaguinness
1961, 1963, 1972
Gianni Agnelli on Pamela Churchill (Digby, Harriman) :
“The affair wasn’t about love. ‘You fall in love at twenty,’ Gianni said. ‘After that, only waitresses fall in love.’ Like the rest of his playboy friends, he liked to bed the most beautiful women—actresses, models, starlets, luscious bimbos—and move on briskly to the next. He had the life he believed every man wanted, and he wasn’t going to change for anyone.. ..
Truman Capote on Pamela Harriman (Churchill, Hayward, Digby) :
“Pamela was clearly the kind of character Truman wanted in Answered Prayers. Just chronicling her affairs would have filled the pages of a book. “We spent a lot of time on yachts together,” said Truman. “Anybody becomes a confidant on a yacht cruise, and I think I’ve lived through every screw she ever had in her life. Believe me, that’s an Arabian Nights tale of a thousand and twelve!…
#capoteswomen #capotesswans #pamelaHarriman
“Slim lived on the surface, and she lived there brilliantly. She wanted to amuse and to be amused.”
[Slim Hawks - later Slim Pickings]
#capoteswomen #capotesswans #slimpickings #bookstodon
The sheer restfulness of good breeding—Manhasset, Kiluna Farm:
“Bill [Paley] was able to re-create every aspect of the old WASP elite-except its essence. Seymour St. John, Choate's revered headmaster, talked about ‘the sheer restfulness of good breeding.’ …
Capote's Women
Laurence Leamer
“He was calling his novel-in-progress about the swans Answered Prayers, following the saying attributed to Saint Teresa of Ávila: “There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.”
Excerpt From
Capote's Women
Laurence Leamer
Chloë Watch--1st Look at 'Feud: Capote's Swans' All We Hope For
https://www.vogue.com/article/chloe-sevigny-naomi-watts-feud-capotes-women via "Vogue" #Feud #CapotesSwans #TrumanCapote #ChloeSevigny #ChloëSevigny
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