We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between.
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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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I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
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(Tennessee) played up on me and my big men kept setting screens and getting me open.
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If this were women's NCAA basketball, this would be like going into Tennessee - there's nothing like it. We're fired up for this; when you walk out and there are 15,000 people screaming and the walk-out is like the NBA finals - hey, it this doesn't get our kids ready nothing will.
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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 only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
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There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.
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I remember it like it was yesterday. Nine years of age, Chattanooga, Tennessee. We were entered to the National Boys Championship, and we could not get into the tournament.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.
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You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.
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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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Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.
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Make voyages - Attempt them - there's nothing else...
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer of marriage fr...
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Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question.
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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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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.
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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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Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
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Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.
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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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Make voyages! Attempt them...there's nothing else.
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