Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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It 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.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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