Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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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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 helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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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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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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