Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Add 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.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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