Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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