I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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