If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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