And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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