Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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