The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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 object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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