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“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”

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American playwright, renowned for his profound psychological portrayals and unique dramatic style. His notable works include 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie'. more

“And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.”

People Said Real Ends Feelings Enjoy Degrees Rivers Greek Ancestor Tolerate Sermons Register Voltage Old Greek

Author:Ted Hughes

“That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.”

People World Feels Children Remember Suffering Alive Worst Walking Ordinary Careful Monsters Naked Paradox Buried Shells Only Time Protective Armour Adaptive Walking Dead

Book:Letters of Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.”

Writing Party Trouble Policy Labor Determined Boss

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—”

Ifs Knows Kind I Can Reason Helping Seems Faces Girl Stuff Cutting Like You Smart Likes Like Me Your Face Like Her I Like You

Author:Ned Vizzini

“And when you say the truth you get stronger.”

Stronger

Author:Ned Vizzini

“For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”

“Everyone sees different things.”

Different Different Things

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.”

Knows Earth

Author:Dennis Lehane

“It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.”

Made Water Cutting Cry Tears Ran Salt Salt Water

Book:Anybody Out There

Source: Anybody Out There

“This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.”

Ifs Men Way Heart May Matter Girl Given Sleep Failing Drink Jokes Queens Meals Trifles

Author:C. S. Lewis

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