Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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