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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

Tennessee Williams

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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Artist Began Block Explain Explanation Fancy Force Itself Life Method More Put Rather Significant Unsatisfactory
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Apty Devouring Goddess Love Name Organism Venus
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Biggest Difference Envy Love One Pleasure Sick Those Watch World
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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Country Great Have Heart Irity Life Live One People Person Play Success Theme Time Worth Wrote
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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All Always Bee Character Contain Create Cropped Defect Interset Merely More Something Think
Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Believe Dignity Importance Let Life More Question Still Unanswered
The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Condition Conventional Him Only Right Unavoidable Work
Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Been Cruelty Deliberate Ever Forgiveness Guilty Most never One Opinion Thing
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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Another Character Desperate Easier Found Frightened Hysteria Identity Life Person Reach Upon Verge
Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Afternoon Bit Country Drop Eternity Hand Hour Judge Know Little Long Love Rain
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Dreamer Good Need Only Remember Revolution
Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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All Beauty Grow Heart Mind Pass Physical Possession Richness Spirit Tenderness Think Transitory Year
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Come Matter Run Save Something Utter What Will
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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All Burnt Call Department Fire House Live Lock Look Out Trap Upstairs Way While Widow
There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Activate Bad Better Good Little Malice Misunderstanding More No People Some Worse
That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Again Devote Lost Love Monosyilable Opposition Raed Return Short Slip Time Write

I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

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