Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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What 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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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 helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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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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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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