Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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