Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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 all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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