Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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