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!”
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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