Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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