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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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