I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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.
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