I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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