All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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