Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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 respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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It 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.
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