It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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