Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHe gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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