Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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