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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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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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