Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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