Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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