A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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