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think of nothing things think of wind ✨ Truman Capote (1949). A tree of night: and other stories
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ✨ Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). Truman Capote: Conversations, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with words that smacked of pinewoods or prairie. One … ▶
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. ✨ Truman Capote (2012). Breakfast at Tiffany's, p.46, Vintage
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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