And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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