Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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