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

Tennessee Williams

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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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Between Comfortable Consequence Leg Look Made Orchid Something Spread Woman
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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Begin Do Like Listener Lose Magic Sell Stop Story Tell Wonder
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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Country Great Have Heart Irity Life Live One People Person Play Success Theme Time Worth Wrote
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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All Cruel Frankness Paragon People Themselves
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Decency Fight Howl Person Respect
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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All Believe Hardness Hate Love Much never So These Year You
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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Block Come Concentration Plan Shy Success Watch
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Another Aside Deeply Hell Himself Motion Only Person Put Rede Yourself
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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Action Bulb Can Light More Naked Remark Rude Stand Vulgar
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
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
A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Bedroom Just Nice Sleep Whosoever With You
I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Do Not Magic Realism Want
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
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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Acquainted Before Commence Death Early Fast Go Half Life Meet Nothin Other Outrun So Time

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