Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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