"Breakfast at Tiffany's"

[fiefoe]

More pronouncements from Holly:

• "Clocks are slow on Sundays."
• "Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."
• "It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear."
• "I'd settle for Garbo any day. Why not? A person ought to be able to marry men or women."
• "Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart."
• "I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something,  anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it."
• "Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion."
  

The narrator is a pretty interesting character too, a foolish wise man, a gloomy comic.

• The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would...  because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.
• If..., then the army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.
• Wartime sugar and cream rationing restricted her imagination when it came to sweets - nevertheless, she once managed something called Tobacco Tapioca: best not describe it.
• I, scampering out of the tub to enrich the fray...
  

Nice phrases: 'a headful of reasons', 'farce in grim disguise', 'The sky careened.'.
Political personalities Holly approved of: Wilkie Wendell, Nehru.