I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWilliam 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!”
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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