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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.

Tennessee Williams

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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Apprehend Basic Equipped Fully Life Mean Once Salvation Struggle Vacuity You
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Actual Artist Can Consequences Find Intense Less Only Reality Resource Satisfaction Substance Work World
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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Curve Heart Human Line Mountain Road Straight Street Through
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Cage Heart Keep One Liner Prayer Wild
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Beautiful Give Grace People Such Weak
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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Biggest Difference Envy Love One Pleasure Sick Those Watch World
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Aristocracy One Only Passionate Soul True
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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Antecedents Believe Choice Circumstances Hero Individual Influences Necessity Right Taken Themselves Uncomprehended Villian Way Wrong
Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Affect Belief Contagious Other Say Vain
I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Cage Live Maggie Occupy Same With You
We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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All Born Come Die From Giant Live Mark Question Refer Shadow Us Where
The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Call Future Important Perhaps Possible Scare Thing
A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Blindness Each Go Heart Other What
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Face Fire Out Put
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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All Cruel Frankness Paragon People Themselves
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Always Influence Life Love Most Strongest Time Whomsoever Work

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