It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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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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This 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.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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