I am more faithful than I intended to be!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLiving with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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 scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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