He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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