Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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To be free is to have achieved your 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 future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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?
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