We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSomething in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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