It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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We 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.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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