"Breakfast at Tiffany's"

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The secondary characters:

• (A would-be swaine): He turned back, a smile of relief oiling his face.
• Yet, despite these amiable antics, it was a grim cat with a pirate's cutthroat face; one eye was gluey-blind, the other sparkled with dark deeds.
• A young woman... entered like a wind-rush, a squall of scarves and jangling gold.
• She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
• "It's such a useless thing for a man to want to be: the p-p-president of Brazil."
• Berman... like many short men in the presence of tall women, had an aspiring mist in his eye.
  

Capote is even good with describing time.

• A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird
• So the days, the last days, blow about in memory, hazy, autumnal, all alike as leaves.
• Months went by, a winter of them...