Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote 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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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When 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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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