You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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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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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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.
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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 name of a person you love is more than language.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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