Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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 believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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