And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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