We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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