When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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