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21 Cards in this Set
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“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
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(William Blake)
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“The Glass Menagerie in one stroke lifted lyricism to its highest level in our theatre's history...In him the American theatre found, perhaps for the first, an eloquence and an amplitude of feeling. And driving on this newly discovered lyrical line was a kind of emotional heroism; he wanted not to approve or disapprove but to touch the germ of life and to celebrate it with verbal beauty.”
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(A. Miller)
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“All work is autobiographical if it's serious. Everything a writer produces is his inner history, transposed into another time. I am more personal in my writing than other people.”
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(Williams)
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“It's human valor that moves me. The one dominant theme in most of my writings, the most magnificent thing in all human nature, is valor—and endurance.”
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(Williams)
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“...he was more eager to get away from where he was than he was to get to another place...”
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(Paul Bowles)
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“If I can be said to have a home, it is in New Orleans, which has provided me with more material than any other part of the country.”
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(Williams)
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“I create imaginary worlds into which I can retreat from the real world because I've never made any kind of adjustment to the real world.”
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(Williams)
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“In a play, time is arrested in the sense of being confined. By a sort of legerdemain, events are made to remain events, rather than being reduced so quickly to mere occurrences. The aduience can sit back in a comforting dusk to watch a world which is flooded with light and in which emotion and action have a dimension and dignitity that they would likewise have in real existence, if only the shattering intrusion of time could be locked out.”
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(Williams)
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“So successfully have we disgused from ourselves the intensity of our own feelings, the sensibility of our own hearts, that plays in the tragic tradition have begun to seem untrue. For a couple of hours we may surrender ourselves to a world of fiercely illuminated values in conflict, but when the stage is covered and the auditorium lighted, almost immediately there is a recoil of disbelief.”
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(Williams)
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"To reach the high yellow note...I had to key myself up a bit"
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(Van Gogh)
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“The more I become dissipated, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I too become a creative artist.”
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(Van Gogh)
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“Ah, my deal pals, we crazy ones, lets anyway enjoy with our eyes.”
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(Van Gogh)
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“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.”
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(Shannon) -In the church
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“A moment of beauty, Miss Fellows, a fleeting glimpse into the lost world of innocence.”
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(Shannon)
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“Oh you beast, you beast, you beast.”
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(Fellowes)
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“Miss Jelkes, we live on two levels; the fantastic level and the realistic level are the two levels upon which we live. But which is the real one, really?”
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(Shannon)
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"I've got to break the chain"
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(Shannon)
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• “I respect anybody who's had to fight and howl for his decency.”
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(Hannah to Shannon)
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“Nothing human disgusts me, Shannon, unless it's unkind or violent.”
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(Hannah)
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“...endurance is something spooks and blue devils respect, and they respect all the tricks panicky people use to outwit and outlast their panic.”
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(Hannah)
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“We are operation on the realistic level when we are doing the things that have to be done.”
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(Hannah)
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