Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are 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 creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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 woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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