Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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