America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhomever 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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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 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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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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