If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSPhysical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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