Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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