Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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