We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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