"Things have a way of turning out so badly."
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"I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II"
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"Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion."
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"I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
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"If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having concerned myself with such people, because I think that most of us are disturbed."
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"Just another four-letter word."
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"But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary"
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"People go to the movies instead of moving."
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"Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!"
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"Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other."
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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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"It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f - - -'s point of view. But I don't regard myself as a f - - -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don't like too much protest or criticism of their way of life."
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"The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love."
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"The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny."
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"The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck."
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"Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back."
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"Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!"
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"What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can."
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"Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it."
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"If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets."
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