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" A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. "
Tennessee Williams
Some
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Better
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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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" Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. "
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" When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. "
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" We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. "
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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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" I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. "
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" Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. "
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" The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. "
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" Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. "
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" Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. "
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" The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. 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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" I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. "
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" If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. "
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" 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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You
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" To be free is to have achieved your life. "
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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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" The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. "
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" Success and failure are equally disastrous. "
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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 - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you. "
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" All good art is an indiscretion. "
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" There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. "
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Even
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" We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. "
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" 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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" Luck is believing you're lucky. "
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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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