“When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.”
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“Most people's lives—what are they but trails of debris, each day more debris, more debris, long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death.”
― Suddenly Last Summer
― Suddenly Last Summer
“Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?”
― Calvin and Hobbes
― Calvin and Hobbes
“Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen.”
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen.”
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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