There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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