Peter J. Atwood fiction

I like words, and more, words that are used well. This is where I collect them. Most I come across in the works of other authors, but on occasion I find some in the wild myself.

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“And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.”

—Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s