All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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