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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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