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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.

Tennessee Williams

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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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