all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, gi…

Truman Capote
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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 meaningless as this: God, let me be loved. ✨ Truman Capote (2007). Other Voices, Other Rooms, p.62, Vintage
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