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.’ …

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(w Pamela Digby, 1952 & 1948)

“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

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Excerpt From
Capote's Women
Laurence Leamer
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1961, 1963, 1972

“Slim lived on the surface, and she lived there brilliantly. She wanted to amuse and to be amused.”

[Slim Hawks - later Slim Pickings]
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