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Truman Capote Reads From Breakfast At Tiffany's April 7, 1963.

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Uploaded on Apr 15, 2010

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If theres one thing I loathe, its men who bite!

So exclaims Holly Golightly in the opening pages of Breakfast at Tiffanys, having entered the narrators apartment via the fire escape, and such is how Truman Capote introduced his heroine when he read from the novel here at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center on April 7, 1963. Todays featured recording is a selection from that evening.

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  • cbr0oks

    cbr0oks 2 years ago

    don't feed the trolls.

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  • Eric Turpin

    Eric Turpin 8 months ago

    A great writer . But you could never trust him . He knew everyone . And had his own openions .

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  • Mazurka1001

    Mazurka1001 1 month ago

    Quite a Queen...

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  • Cory Ogilvie

    Cory Ogilvie 4 months ago

    Beautiful.

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  • Judith Ridge

    Judith Ridge 8 months ago

    How wonderful that we have this available to us, to hear Capote read his own work all these decades later. How privileged we are to live in this age of technology!

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  • ackamack101

    ackamack101 1 year ago

    wonderful stuff.

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  • trumancapoteisgreat

    trumancapoteisgreat 1 year ago

    Doing an After Effects text animation using this narration. I love you, Truman. I wish there was a segment reading of In Cold Blood out there.

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  • sleepypoodle

    sleepypoodle 1 year ago

    If your interpretation of the first amendment is such that you feel compelled to abuse these democratic rights by expressing your vacuos and infantile opinions in this way then you have missed the point and wasted your life, you pathetic, ignorant bigot.

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  • SuperTigerTV

    SuperTigerTV 2 years ago

    This is great thanks for posting! I wish there was the rest of the story too! The movie was wonderful but it is interesting to hear the original story...

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  • nouvellefag

    nouvellefag 2 years ago

    How lovely! I could fall asleep to this; his voice is so soothing.

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  • Natoyaista

    Natoyaista 2 years ago

    I lovee this

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