Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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