If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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