Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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