Clare Snow’s Reviews > Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era > Status Update

"Hawks's former wife had gone crazy, and now Slim herself appeared to be heading in that same direction."

These rich bastards really know how to be bastards

But that didn't stop him enlisting after Pearl Harbour. His wife Babe wasn't going to take part in any plebian efforts during WWII, she went back to her job at Vogue while nannies and maids raised her babies

"I've been depressed. It's very expensive. I wouldn't try it if I were you" - Stanley Mortimer, a man with too much money to embarrass himself working to earn money

"One could not cavalierly toss away a prospect simply because he was married."

His current wife being eminently expendable...