Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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