A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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