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8687575	If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.	demons	Tennessee Williams
b0e769a	I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?		Tennessee Williams
23abf48	Time is the longest distance between two places.	time	Tennessee Williams
b4bd1c0	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.		Tennessee Williams
13bcb44	Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.	time seperation	Tennessee Williams
d82c975	I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!		Tennessee Williams
b18c195	A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.	prayer wild-at-heart	Tennessee Williams
fe2bd49	I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.		Tennessee Williams
3749201	Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?		Tennessee Williams
e19d45e	How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.		Tennessee Williams
e8629fe	There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.		Tennessee Williams
78557a2	When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.	paradox	Tennessee Williams
3abb107	In memory, everything seems to happen to music.		Tennessee Williams
5263fb4	Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.	humor inspirational	Tennessee Williams
a8b026e	Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?	time	Tennessee Williams
d5a85dc	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?		Tennessee Williams
6e0ea3d	What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? --- I wish I knew ... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can ... [More croquet sounds] Later tonight I'm going to tell you I love you an' maybe by that time you'll be drunk enough to believe me. Yes, they're playing croquet ... Big Daddy is dying of cancer ... What were you thinking of when I caught you looking at me like that? Were you thinking of Skipper? [Brick crosses to the bar, ..		Tennessee Williams
2880326	Of course it's bound to cause a great deal of very disagreeable talk. Especially 'round the church! Are you gentlemen Episcopalian? PORTER: No, ma'am. Catholic, Miss Collins. MISS COLLINS: Oh. Well, I suppose you know in England we're known as the English Catholic church. We have direct Apostolic succession through St. Paul who christened the Early Angles--which is what the original English people were called--and established the English br..		Tennessee Williams
6e834d9	I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.		Tennessee Williams
89fe7ee	A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages		Tennessee Williams
a03571c	In memory everything seems to happen to music.		Tennessee Williams
479af04	All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.		Tennessee Williams
9a1d151	Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.		Tennessee Williams
27083b8	Things have a way of turning out so badly.		Tennessee Williams
b94606a	You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!		Tennessee Williams
334b984	Eternity!--Didn't it give you the cold shivers?		Tennessee Williams
22b2dc8	The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!		Tennessee Williams
7c01e23	We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.		Tennessee Williams
957f0c8	All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.		Tennessee Williams

If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.

Tennessee Williams

b0e769a

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Tennessee Williams

23abf48

Time is the longest distance between two places.

time

Tennessee Williams

b4bd1c0

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.

Tennessee Williams

13bcb44

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

time seperation

Tennessee Williams

d82c975

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Tennessee Williams

b18c195

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

prayer wild-at-heart

Tennessee Williams

fe2bd49

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

3749201

Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?

Tennessee Williams

e19d45e

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Tennessee Williams

e8629fe

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

78557a2

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

paradox

Tennessee Williams

3abb107

In memory, everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

5263fb4

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

humor inspirational

Tennessee Williams

a8b026e

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

time

Tennessee Williams

d5a85dc

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?

Tennessee Williams

6e0ea3d

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? --- I wish I knew ... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can ... [More croquet sounds] Later tonight I'm going to tell you I love you an' maybe by that time you'll be drunk enough to believe me. Yes, they're playing croquet ... Big Daddy is dying of cancer ... What were you thinking of when I caught you looking at me like that? Were you thinking of Skipper? [Brick crosses to the bar, ..

Tennessee Williams

2880326

Of course it's bound to cause a great deal of very disagreeable talk. Especially 'round the church! Are you gentlemen Episcopalian? PORTER: No, ma'am. Catholic, Miss Collins. MISS COLLINS: Oh. Well, I suppose you know in England we're known as the English Catholic church. We have direct Apostolic succession through St. Paul who christened the Early Angles--which is what the original English people were called--and established the English br..