I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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 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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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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