William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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