If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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