I know the next best thing is often the very best.

Truman Capote
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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way. ✨ Truman Capote (2012). Summer Crossing: A Novel, p.61, Modern Library
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to. ✨ Truman Capote (2012). Breakfast at Tiffany's, p.83, Vintage
What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry a … ▶
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why. ✨ Truman Capote (2012). Music For Chameleons, p.56, Vintage

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