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 WILLIAMSThe future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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