Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThis 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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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