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"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."
"A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you."
"Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois"
"The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?"
"Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged."
"I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats."
"It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance."
"Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are."
"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. 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?"
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."
"I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of."
"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!"
"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."
"A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion."
"But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant."
"You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
"All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that."
"Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag."
"People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them."
"Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!"