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

Tennessee Williams

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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Blaze Blue Cloud Come Complete Light Open Overcast Quickly Run Sometimes Space
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Apply Enough Go Long Pardon Punishment Serve Term
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Actually Age Discover Escape Felt Fourteen Reality Uncomfortable World Write
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Broken Mountain Rock Violet
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Death Life Many Moment One So Them
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
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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All Cruel Frankness Paragon People Themselves
And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Accept Kill Look Mirror Stop Yourself
The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Call Future Important Perhaps Possible Scare Thing
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
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
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Ahead Believe Convince Do Ease Easy Good Paly To Way Write Yourself
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Desperate Eternal Existence Fleet Great Human Magic Snatch Trick
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Can From Honest Man Not Spearte Write Wrote
Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Attempt Country Else Make Nothing Voyage
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Cruelty Deliberate Only Unforgivable
That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Again Devote Lost Love Monosyilable Opposition Raed Return Short Slip Time Write
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Devil Driven Hand Heart Mouth Touch
Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Anything Easy Get Hand Interset Lose Men Other Quickly Want
We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Beginning Date Each Other From Had
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
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
Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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All Angel Demon Die Kill might My
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Articles Detail Emotional Exaggerated Heart License Lot Memory Nonrealsistic Omit Other Poetic Scene Seated Some Therefore Touches Value
To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Achieve Free Have Life
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Compare Death Funeral Pretty
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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Body Drunk Heart Human Leg Line never Paas Pair Put Straight Test Told Took Walk Would

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