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Truman Capote
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our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create. ✨ Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). Truman Capote: Conversations, p.356, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaning … ▶
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our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create. ✨ Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). Truman Capote: Conversations, p.356, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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