Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The 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.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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