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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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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?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be free is to have achieved your life.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
- Depended
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
- Mythology
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- Nov 07, 2020
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
- Guinea
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
- Confinement
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Equally
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
- Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
For time is the longest distance between two places.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Beautiful People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All good art is an indiscretion.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020