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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSRevolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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