It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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