For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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