If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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