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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern
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- Truman Capote
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- Approximate author period: c. 1954 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1924 to 1984; Wikidata Q134180, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134180 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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