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Book: Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
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  1. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's: A

    The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.
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  2. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's: A

    But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.
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  3. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's: A

    I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try and get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego, tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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  4. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's: A

    It's a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Not lawtype honest--I'd rob a grave, I'd steal two-bits off a dead man's eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day's enjoyment--but unto-thyself-type honest. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: 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.
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  5. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's: A

    What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.
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  6. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's: A

    I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.
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  7. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's: A

    would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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  8. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's: A

    I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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