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)
“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.”
—Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)
“I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)
“My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)