"I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears."
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"Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states."
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"The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play just seems to materialize; like an apparition, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer. It's very vague at first, as in the case of Streetcar, which came after Menagerie. I simply had the vision of a woman in her late youth. She was sitting in a chair all alone by a window with the moonlight streaming in on her desolate face, and she'd been stood up by the man she planned to marry."
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"And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into..."
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"I must endure & endure & still endure."
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"A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away."
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"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"
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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."
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"Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To board a train into his mind would give me a ride into dark adventure."
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"We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime."
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"Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial."
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"No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it."
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"Young, gifted, and destitute."
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"Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think."
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"I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip."
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"When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic."
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"Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic."
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"The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform."
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"Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles."
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