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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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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