Truman Capote Reads From Breakfast At Tiffany's April 7, 1963.
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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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wonderful stuff.
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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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@4freespeech 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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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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How lovely! I could fall asleep to this; his voice is so soothing.
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I lovee this
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This is sooo awesome. Man I would have loved to be a fly on the wall that day :) I wished he didn't have to get into drugs and drinking :(
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merci
bangkok johnny
royaume de thailande
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who cares what his orientation was he is one of our best authors and a brilliant man how many critically acclaimed pieces of LITERATURE have you written freespeech?
cpdusmcdst9 1 year ago 27
don't feed the trolls.
cbr0oks 1 year ago 8