We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFor time is the longest distance between two places.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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