To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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