Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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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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