I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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