A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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