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“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.”
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“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Conversations With Tennessee Williams
― Conversations With Tennessee Williams
“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?”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”
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“We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.”
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Literary Fiction by People of Color
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