We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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