Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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