Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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