Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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