To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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