If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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