Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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