Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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