Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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