"Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
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"Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation."
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"For time is the longest distance between two places."
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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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"Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth."
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"The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart."
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"America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland."
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"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."
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"Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other."
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"Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other."
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"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
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"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
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"Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too."
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"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."
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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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"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."
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"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
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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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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
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"To be free is to have achieved your life."
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