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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee Williams

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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Also Hypocrite Liar Only Thing Worse
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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All Believe Hardness Hate Love Much never So These Year You
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Exist Feeling Heart Only Think Understanding
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Broken Mountain Rock Violet
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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Block Come Concentration Plan Shy Success Watch
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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All Art Good
What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Back Cat Determine Gently Need Nothing Roof Someone Something Tin
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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Apply Enough Go Long Pardon Punishment Serve Term
But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Fragile People Really Seemingly Strong These
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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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
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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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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Beautiful Give Grace Hold Need People Someone Such Take Up Weak
I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Always Bat Country Detect High Little People Person Say
And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Accept Kill Look Mirror Stop Yourself
That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Between Distance Longest Place Time Two
I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Do Not Magic Realism Want
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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