Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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