Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFor time is the longest distance between two places.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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