Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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