The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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