Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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