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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

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
Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Are Believe Luck Lucky You
Some things are not forgiveable.
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Forgivable Something
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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Actual Artist Can Consequences Find Intense Less Only Reality Resource Satisfaction Substance Work World
We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Begin Do Like Listener Lose Magic Sell Stop Story Tell Wonder
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
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Being Disappoint Discourage Else One Something Thing
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Brother Dangerous Human Inflammatory Most Tongue Word Work
If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Anyone Be Being Can Else Point Yourself
Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Away Friendship From Separation Take True
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Always Influence Life Love Most Strongest Time Whomsoever Work
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Apty Devouring Goddess Love Name Organism Venus
But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Fragile People Really Seemingly Strong These
I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Do Not Magic Realism Want
Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Everybody Love Nothing Them Until You
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Exist Feeling Heart Only Think Understanding
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Block Come Concentration Plan Shy Success Watch
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Alone Entire Live Living Lonelier Love Someone You
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Appaling Experience Gallantry Grace High Life Station Survive
To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Achieve Free Have Life
When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Broken Death Disorder Go Life Period Refuse Some Unhappiness Write
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Break Careful Easily Glass Matter No So
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Absolute Awful Believe God Him Long Silence Speechless Thing Whole World
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
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Art Desperate Eternal Fleet Make Moment Object
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Actually Age Discover Escape Felt Fourteen Reality Uncomfortable World Write
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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City Clevland Country Else Everwhere Only Three

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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