The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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