And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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 is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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