The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of 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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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