Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen 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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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