Everybody is nothing until you love them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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