All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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