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" What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. "
Tennessee Williams
Heart
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" A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. "
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" To be free is to have achieved your life. "
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" If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed. "
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" There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. "
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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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" 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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" When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. "
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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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" If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. "
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" Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. "
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" A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. "
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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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" 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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" When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. "
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