Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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