Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLiving with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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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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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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