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Everybody Is Nothing Until You Love Them

Everybody Is Nothing Until You Love Them

And 13 other pieces of love riddled truth spoken by Tennessee Williams.

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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Time is the longest distance between two places.

— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

— Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof

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Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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Everybody is nothing until you love them.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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