The name of a person you love is more than language.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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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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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 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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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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