We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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 I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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