Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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