Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBeing disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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