Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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