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“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.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“I don't want realism. I want magic!”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
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