To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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