A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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