Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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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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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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