Everybody is nothing until you love them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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