And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.
Truman CapoteThere's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.
Truman Capotewould you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
Truman Capote