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the same imagination he uses as a reader is necessary to understand real people also, and to be intimate with them.
“My sun sets to rise again.”
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“Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!”
― Suddenly Last Summer
― Suddenly Last Summer
“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.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“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
“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 light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
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Mouki’s 2025 Year in Books
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