Luck is believing you’re lucky.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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