Truman Capote

Richard Greenberg

Based on Truman Capote’s classic novella, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S tells the story of a young Southern-born writer, known to us only as Fred, who becomes infatuated with his Upper East Side neighbor: the beguiling, effervescent beauty Miss Holiday Golightly. As Holly pulls Fred into her world of spontaneous parties and luxury, he finds himself increasingly fascinated with this captivating woman.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Ashlyn Barrett

…a man's been walking in the streets going on ten or twelve years, and all those years he's got his eye out for one person, and nobody's ever her, don't it stand to reason she's not there? I see pieces of her all the time. 

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

…crowd gathered there attracted there by a happy group of whiskey-eyed Australian army officers baritoning, "Waltzing Matilda." As they sang they took turns spin-dancing a girl over the cobbles under the El; and the girl, Miss Golightly, to be sure, floated round in their arms light as a scarf.

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.

Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit.

She isn't a phony because she's a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes.

You've got to be sensitive to appreciate her: a streak of the poet.

I'm in New York cause I've never been to New York.

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