He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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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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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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