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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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