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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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 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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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