He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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