Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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