To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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