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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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