For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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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.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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