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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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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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Always Character Deal Great Left Mystery Play Revelation Some
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Death Life Many Moment One So Them
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Being Disappoint Discourage Else One Something Thing
I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Arrangement Economic Face Let Many Marriage Way
You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Give Resistance Surprise Take World
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
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Against Betrayal Defense Distrust Each Only Other
I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Cage Live Maggie Occupy Same With You
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Fast Go Like No Pleasure Wel World Write
A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Blindness Each Go Heart Other What
Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Come Day Dead Forward Know Look Stop Suffer
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Broken Mountain Rock Violet
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Alone Inexcusably Lonely Many Seem Selfish So
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Face Fire Out Put
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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Body Drunk Heart Human Leg Line never Paas Pair Put Straight Test Told Took Walk Would
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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Artist Began Block Explain Explanation Fancy Force Itself Life Method More Put Rather Significant Unsatisfactory
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Accept Bird Cage Each Fight Long Other
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Cage Heart Keep One Liner Prayer Wild

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