There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSKill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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