There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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 it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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