There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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