We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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