Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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