Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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