He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are 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 strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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