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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Tennessee Williams

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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Between Distance Longest Place Time Two
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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Absolute Awful Believe God Him Long Silence Speechless Thing Whole World
The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Condition Conventional Him Only Right Unavoidable Work
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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Break Careful Easily Glass Matter No So
I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Expose Have Human Myself Stage Through Unless Weakness
Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Give Resistance Surprise Take World
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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