Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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