It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every d…

Truman Capote
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It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them. ✨ Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). Conversations with Capote, Plume
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It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them. ✨ Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). Conversations with Capote, Plume

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