What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Living 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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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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 have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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