I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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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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