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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. (Tennessee Williams)
Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there. View quote
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These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? View quote
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me. View quote
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois. View quote
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. View quote
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Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!" View quote
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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial. View quote
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness. View quote
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What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken? View quote
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk? (Tennessee Williams)
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. View quote
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. View quote
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I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. View quote
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other. View quote
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But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant. View quote
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. View quote
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. View quote
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The name of a person you love is more than language. View quote
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform. View quote
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There is only one true aristocracy... and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! (Tennessee Williams)
But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows. View quote
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others. View quote
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Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.. View quote
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I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together. View quote
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