Guessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBlanche: 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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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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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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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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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 human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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