We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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