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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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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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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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