He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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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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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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