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Author: Truman Capote
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Truman Capote _ Summer Crossing
Unfortunately, one mirror is as treacherous as another, reflecting at some point in every adventure the same vain unsatisfied face, and so when she asks what have I done? she means really what am I doing? as one usually does.
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Truman Capote _ Summer Crossing
Grady felt a chill echo, the kind that comes when, in an original situation, one has the sensation of its all having occurred before: if we know the past, and live the present, is it possible that we dream the future?
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Truman Capote _ Summer Crossing
If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?
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Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's
let's don't say another word. let's just go to sleep...
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Truman Capote _ In Cold Blood
You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you can learn how to control it the flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you.
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Truman Capote _ Answered Prayers: The
Even for those who dislike champagne, myself among them, there are two champagnes one can't refuse: Dom Perignon and the even superior Cristal, which is bottled in a natural-colored glass that displays its pale blaze, a chilled fire of such prickly dryness that, swallowed, seems not to have been swallowed at all, but instead to have turned to vapors on the tongue and burned there to one damp sweet ash.
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Truman Capote _ In Cold Blood
A sensible question, as Mrs. Clare, an admirer of logic, though a curious interpreter of it, was driven to admit.
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Truman Capote _ The Complete Stories of Truman
Think of nothing things, think of wind.
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Truman Capote _ Summer Crossing
He left soon afterwards, leaving her alone in the dark room, illuminated time to time by shocking leaps of heat lightning, and she thought, now it will rain, and it never did, and she thought, now he will come, and he never did. She lighted cigarettes, letting them die between her lips, and the hours, thorned, crucifying, waited with her, and listened as she listened: but he was not coming.
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Truman Capote _ The Thanksgiving Visitor
It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going?
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Truman Capote _ Portraits and Observations:
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Truman Capote _ In Cold Blood
You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quiet sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving to project his individuality against a backdrop of rigid conformity. You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction.
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