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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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