I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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 most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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