Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen 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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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