Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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We 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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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