We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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