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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?

Tennessee Williams

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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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All Burnt Call Department Fire House Live Lock Look Out Trap Upstairs Way While Widow
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Broken Mountain Rock Violet
Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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All Beauty Grow Heart Mind Pass Physical Possession Richness Spirit Tenderness Think Transitory Year
Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Believe Dignity Importance Let Life More Question Still Unanswered
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Face Fire Out Put
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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Beautiful Give Grace Hold Need People Someone Such Take Up Weak
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Artist Began Block Explain Explanation Fancy Force Itself Life Method More Put Rather Significant Unsatisfactory
I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Always Bat Country Detect High Little People Person Say
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Art Desperate Eternal Fleet Make Moment Object
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Choose Friend Life Make Nade Party We
Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Afternoon Bit Country Drop Eternity Hand Hour Judge Know Little Long Love Rain
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
I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Antecedent Believe Certain Comprehend Guilt Hero Necessity Original Right Sin Themselves Villian Wrong
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Always Influence Life Love Most Strongest Time Whomsoever Work
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
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Break Careful Easily Glass Matter No So

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