If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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