Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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