I don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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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 think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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