The name of a person you love is more than language.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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