He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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