ending quotation in CAPOTE

Stephen Goranson goranson at DUKE.EDU
Sun Jan 22 13:15:29 UTC 2006


I haven't seen the movie, but according to the introduction to Capote's
Complete
Stories, he planned a book called Answered Prayers, a title he said he
got from
a quote of St. Teresa of Avila: "More tears are shed over answered
prayers than
unanswered ones."

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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