To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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