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“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

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

“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, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.

--Blanche Dubois”
― Tennessee Williams's, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire

“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“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..”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“القهوة لا تُشرب على عجل، القهوةٌ أخت الوقت تُحْتَسى على مهل، القهوة صوت المذاق، صوت الرائحة، القهوة تأمّل وتغلغل في النفس وفي الذكريات”
― محمود درويش, ذاكرة للنسيان

“حمدا لله علـى أوهامنـا، إنّها تمنحنـا بقية أمل ، و بقيـة عزاء”
― يوسف السباعي, نادية، الجزء الأول

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“يحكى الواحد منا عن أمر موجع لحجب الأمر الأكثر ايلاما”
― رضوى عاشور

“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“ و كلما حاول أن يغالب ما في قلبه ازداد ما في قلبه اتقاداً”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

“الجميلات هُنَّ الجميلاتُ
[نَقْشُ الكمنجات في الخاصرةْ]
الجميلات هُنَّ الضعيفاتُ
[عرشٌ طفيفٌ بلا ذاكرةْ]
الجميلات هُنَّ القويّاتُ
[يأسٌ يضيء ولا يحترقْ]
الجميلات هُنَّ الأميرات
[رَبَّاتُ وحيِ قَلِقْ]
الجميلاتُ هُنَّ القريباتُ
[جاراتُ قوس قُزَحْ]
الجميلات هُنَّ البعيداتُ
[مثل أغاني الفرحْ]
الجميلات هُنَّ الفقيراتُ
[كالورد في ساحة المعركةْ]
الجميلاتُ هُنَّ الوحيداتُ
[مثل الوصيفات في حضرة الملكةْ]
الجميلات هُنَّ الطويلاتُ
[خالات نخل السماءْ]
الجميلات هُنَّ القصيراتُ
[يُشرَبْنَ في كأس ماءْ]
الجميلات هُنَّ الكبيراتُ
[مانجو مُقَشَّرَةٌ ونبيذٌ مُعَتَّقْ]
الجميلات هُنَّ الصغيراتُ
[وَعْدُ غدٍ وبراعمُ زنبقْ]
الجميلاتُ، كلّْ الجميلاتُ، أنتِ
إذا ما اجْتَمَعْنَ ليخْتَرْنَ لي أَنبلَ القاتلات!”
― محمود درويش, كزهر اللوز أو أبعد

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

“لا تنتظر أحداً
فلن يأتي أحد ..
فالآن حاصرك الجليد ..
إلى الأبد ..”
― فاروق جويدة

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee

“أيها الأبله! لا توجد امرأة ضعيفة حتى لو كانت عاشقة”
― محمد المنسي قنديل, تفاصيل الشجن في وقائع الزمن

“ربت هلال كتف بشير وهو يقول في حنق:
لست مندهشاً، يابنى هذه وظيفته. المكان هنا عبارة عن قطيع من الغنم وراعي الغنم وكلب الراعي. تعرف ما وظيفة الكلب؟ لا تسكت هكذا. لو تعرف فأخبرنى.
أطلق نفخة طويلة وهو يجيب:
حماية الغنم..
ضحك هلال ساخراً وهو يضرب كفاً بكف :
أرأيت يا تربية القاهرة؟ أنت لا تعرف شيئاً..
توقف عن الضحك فجأه، وجذب بشير من أذنه وهو يهمس فيها:
الكلب لا يحرس الغنم. الكلب يحرس مال الراعي.
لا أجد فارقاً كبيراً . الغنم هي مال الراعي.
أشار بسبابته بإشارة نفى طويلة:
الفارق كبير. لو أنه يحمي الغنم لحماها حتى من الراعي، لكن لو أراد الراعي يا بشير أن يقفز على إحدى الغنمات، فما الذي سيفعله الكلب؟ سيقف في حراسته يا عزيزي. سيتحول من حارس إلى قواد. أنت الآن الكبش الكبير، إما أن تسمع كلام الراعي وإما سيذبحونك ويأكلون لحمك.”
― حسن كمال, الأسياد