"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?"
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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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"There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!"
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"And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle."
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"You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it."
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"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."
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"attempting to find in motion what was lost in space."
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"Like a cat on a hot tin roof."
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"Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!"
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"I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease."
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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"
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"Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other."
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"And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing."
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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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"I am more faithful than I intended to be!"
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"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can."
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"Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles."
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"I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually."
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"I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?"
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