The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYouth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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