I am more faithful than I intended to be!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThis 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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