Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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