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The Glass Menagerie (1945)
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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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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down… So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less — freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have horns…
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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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Show me a person who hasn't known any sorrow and I'll show you a superficial.
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You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Born:
March 26, 1911
Died:
February 25, 1983
(aged 71)
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