Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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