Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFor time is the longest distance between two places.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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