If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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