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#1

“That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.
Fate. Luck. Chance.”
― Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Fall

tags: chance, fate, life-lessons, luck

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#2

“Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

tags: philosophy, speech, thought, words

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#3

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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#4

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: distance, time

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#5

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2

tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity

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#6

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

tags: angels, demons

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#7

“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
― Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

tags: friendship, seperation, time

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#8

“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, A Streetcar Named Desire

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#9

“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”
― Tennessee Williams

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#10

“I suppose 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. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: desperate, fragile, frightened, hysteria, identification, reaching-out

426 likes

#11

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: cruelty, honesty

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#12

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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#13

“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: elizabeth

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#14

“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.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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#15

“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

tags: hatred, understanding-others

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#16

“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.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: memory

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#17

“Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: dead-people, lucky, rise, waking-up

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#18

“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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#19

“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo

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#20

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: new-orleans

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#21

“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”
― Tennessee Williams

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#22

“People go to the movies instead of moving.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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#23

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers

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#24

“She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

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#25

“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: southern-writers

372 likes

#26

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#27

“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: grotesque, southern-writing

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#28

“I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”
― Henrik Ibsen

tags: majority, society

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#29

“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.”
― Henrik Ibsen

tags: action, inspirational

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#30

“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

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