The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Some 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.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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