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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

Tennessee Williams

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Against Betrayal Defense Distrust Each Only Other
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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All Amenities Behaviors Civilize Few Heart Observe People Savage Team
I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Do Not Magic Realism Want
Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Attempt Country Else Make Nothing Voyage
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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Always Character Deal Great Left Mystery Play Revelation Some
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Country Cruelty Deliberate People Person Unforgivable
He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Appearance Disguise Give Illusion Peasant Truth
The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Between Comfortable Consequence Leg Look Made Orchid Something Spread Woman
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Aristocracy One Only Passionate Soul True
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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All Bases Concept Delinquent God Mythology Senile Theory Western Whole
Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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All Full Hear Ho Just might Next One Story Tell Us Want World
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Day Every Refuse Work Write
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Confinement Inside Life Own Sentence Skin Solitary
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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Back Cat Determine Gently Need Nothing Roof Someone Something Tin
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Block Come Concentration Plan Shy Success Watch
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Also Hypocrite Liar Only Thing Worse

I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

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