We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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