I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precise…

Truman Capote
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I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. ✨ Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). Truman Capote: Conversations, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. ✨ Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). Truman Capote: Conversations, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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