When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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