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?
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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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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 name of a person you love is more than language.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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