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  1. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    let's don't say another word. let's just go to sleep...
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  2. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character.
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  3. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul- desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
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  4. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    I've got to stay awake,' she said, punching her cheeks until the roses came. 'There isn't time to sleep, I'd look consumptive, I'd sag like a tenement, and that wouldn't be fair: a girl can't go to Sing Sing with a green face.
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  5. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    You musn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they're strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.
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  6. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    If I do feel guilty, I guess it's because I let him go on dreaming when I wasn't dreaming a bit.
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  7. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.
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  8. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.
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  9. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority on hers. I discovered, from observing the trash-basket outside her door, that her regular reading consisted of tabloids and travel folders and astrological charts; that she smoked an esoteric cigarette called Picayunes; survived on cottage cheese and Melba Toast; that her vari-colored hair was somewhat self-induced. The same source made it evident that she received V-letters by the bale. They were torn into strips like bookmarks. I used occasionally to pluck myself a bookmark in passing. Remember and miss you and rain and please write and damn and goddamn were the words that recurred most often on these slips; those, and lonesome and love.
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  10. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    The mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen only you don't know what it is.
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  11. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    … the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is.
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  12. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    I don´t want to own anything until I know I have found the place where me and things belong together. I´m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it´s like.
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