An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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