This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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