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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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