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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Tennessee Williams

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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Faithful Intended More
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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Curve Heart Human Line Mountain Road Straight Street Through
Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Cloudy Correspond Distortion Each Ego Look Other Own See Through
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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Ashamed Fact Fear Hate Life Little Live Machine Other People Persuade Same Say Simple Sure Teach Understand World
The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Condition Conventional Him Only Right Unavoidable Work
Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Attempt Country Else Make Nothing Voyage
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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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All Born Come Die From Giant Live Mark Question Refer Shadow Us Where
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!”
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Door House Liar Lie Lock Magie Through
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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Broken Death Disorder Go Life Period Refuse Some Unhappiness Write
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Enthusiasm Important Life Most Thing
I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Expose Have Human Myself Stage Through Unless Weakness
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Angel Demon God Lose Rid
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Have Magician Opposite Pocket Sleeve Stage Thing Trick Yes
Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Been Cruelty Deliberate Ever Forgiveness Guilty Most never One Opinion Thing

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