The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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 think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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