Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThis is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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 violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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