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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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