We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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