Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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