Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capote

Born: Truman Streckfus Persons (1924 - 1984) American novelist and short-story author

• "Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix."
  • Quoted in London Review of Books, 6 January 2000

• "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."
  • Quoted in The Observer

Attributed

• "In California, you lose a point off your IQ every year."

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