Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams Quotes.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possi

The future is called ‘perhaps’, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stu

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. 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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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.
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All good art is an indiscretion.

All good art is an indiscretion.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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