Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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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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