We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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