The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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