Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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