We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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