Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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