Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
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 CapoteRandolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.
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