And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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