Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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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 then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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