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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Tennessee Williams

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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 don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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