We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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