Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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