There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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