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I don’t want realism. I want magic!

Tennessee Williams

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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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All Cruel Frankness Paragon People Themselves
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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Away Friendship From Separation Take True
Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Are Believe Luck Lucky You
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Have Magician Opposite Pocket Sleeve Stage Thing Trick Yes
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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Come Matter Run Save Something Utter What Will
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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