We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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