I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLiving with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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We 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!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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