There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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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 right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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