Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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