There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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