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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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