Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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