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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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