Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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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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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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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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