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.
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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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