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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling...  
A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.  
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature ...  
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.  
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on...  
Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.  
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it come...  
Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone wa...  
For time is the longest distance between two places.  
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself...  
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or...  
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a p...  
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.  
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon ...  
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed pe...  
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote...  
In memory everything seems to happen to music.  
It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world whi...  
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you...  
Luck is believing you're lucky.  
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conc...  
Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.  
Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.  
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death'...  
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influen...  
Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks c...  
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you n...  
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you a...  
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, ...  
Success and failure are equally disastrous.  
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Succe...   Success
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. I...  
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!  
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I ...  
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.   Nature
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go...  
This country of endured but unendurable pain.  
Time is the longest distance between two places.   Time
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied nar...   Death
To be free is to have achieved your life.  
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out...  
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for...  
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betraya...  
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just...  
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins...  
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human h...  
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really...  
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably ...  
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.  
You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about you...