There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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