Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHe gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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