Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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