Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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