Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn 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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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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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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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