When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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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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