The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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