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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAmerica has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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