Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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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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