He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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