Guessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Deliberate 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.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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