Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. - Tennessee Williams

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If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

Tennessee Williams

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Eternity, Fleeting, Human, Magic, Trick

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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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