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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.


Tennessee Williams

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TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch i...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is prepar...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewr...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmle...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincer...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You can't cheat the public for long.
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