I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
Truman Capote[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
Truman CapoteWhen the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execuยญtion in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.
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