Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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