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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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