To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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