Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory

by Truman Capote

“Incidentally,” she said, “do you happen to know any nice lesbians? I’m looking for a roommate. Well, don’t laugh. I’m so disorganized, I simply can’t afford a maid; and really, dykes are wonderful homemakers, they love to do all the work, you never have to bother about brooms and defrosting and sending out the laundry.

Where does Capote get his gay intel from? This is the first of many ridiculous stereotypes.

beautiful cover girl from the Arkansas hills, Miss Margaret Thatcher Fitzhue Wildwood.

Margaret Thatcher? How did he come up with that name? They were contemporaries but she was a nobody in 1950.

For all at once, like savage members of a jungle ambush, a band of Negro boys leapt out of the shrubbery along the

Ah yes, it would have to be.

Which rather enraged the lady: she slapped Holly damned hard.

Did policewomen do this often back then?

“My husband and I will positively sue anyone who attempts to connect our names with that ro-ro-rovolting and de-de-degenerate

Stutterers beware. It’s open season.

She’s crazy. A phony. But a real phony, you know?

I can’t say I do know. Perhaps she’s unaware of her phoniness.