Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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