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" And this new story; he had an idea for a title. He’d heard a sailor on leave, during the war, tell another sailor that he’d take him to breakfast at the most expensive place in town. Where did he want to go? “Well,” the naïve sailor had replied, “I always heard that Tiffany’s was the most expensive place in New York.” Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It was a great title, that much Truman knew. Beyond that— Truman "

Melanie Benjamin , The Swans of Fifth Avenue


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Melanie Benjamin quote : And this new story; he had an idea for a title. He’d heard a sailor on leave, during the war, tell another sailor that he’d take him to breakfast at the most expensive place in town. Where did he want to go? “Well,” the naïve sailor had replied, “I always heard that Tiffany’s was the most expensive place in New York.” Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It was a great title, that much Truman knew. Beyond that— Truman