The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLiving with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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