When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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