Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat 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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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 then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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