Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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