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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!

Tennessee Williams

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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Be Come Ever Into Look Mirror Realize Time
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Give Resistance Surprise Take World
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Against Betrayal Defense Distrust Each Only Other
Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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