A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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