I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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