Breakfast at Tiffany's

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People who don’t know anything about the story, except for its name, are often under the impression that “Tiffany” is one of the characters but that is not the case at all.

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Even if a jury gave me the Purple Heart, this neighborhood holds no future: they’d still have up every rope from LaRue to Perona’s Bar and Grill— take my word […]. She discusses her attempts to be an actress and her feeling of not knowing what she wants to do with her life. She lets biographical details slip: She visits a criminal named Sally Tomato every week to deliver coded messages.When the play opened on Broadway in 2013, it starred Emilia Clarke, another stage debut for an actress keen to reshape her reputation, synonymous as she is with the icy-blonde Daenerys in Game of Thrones. I consider her one of the three greatest beauties in the world, the other two being Gloria Guinness and Garbo.

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The main reason I wrote about Holly, outside of the fact that I liked her so much, was that she was such a symbol of all these girls who come to New York and spin in the sun for a moment like May flies and then disappear,” he said. She was in fact the most beautiful woman of the twentieth century … [S]he was also the most chic woman I have ever known. That’s very much on my schedule, and someday I’ll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I’d like to have my ego tagging along. Clarke was also well aware of women who continued to claim they were the real Holly Golightly even decades later, all of them alleging they were friends with Capote at one time or another.A novella about a young woman fending for herself in New York City in the 1940s, Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s spotlights a certain kind of female independence that was rather uncommon in the mid-20th century. Although the novella isn’t about military service or international conflict, Breakfast at Tiffany’s takes place during World War II, which subtly creeps into the narrative.