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title: "12 Ifs Quotes By Tennessee Williams"
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> [Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/living-with-someone-you-love-can-be-lonelier-than-living-entirely/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/if-you-can-t-be-yourself-what-s-the-point-of-being-anyone-else/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/if-people-behaved-in-the-same-way-nations-do-they-would-all-be-put-in/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/i-wrote-because-i-had-to-i-couldn-t-stop-there-wasn-t-anything-else-i/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/if-i-am-no-longer-disturbed-myself-i-will-deal-less-with-disturbed-2/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/everyone-says-he-s-sincere-but-everyone-isn-t-sincere-if-everyone-was/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/we-lose-the-magic-whenever-we-stop-telling-our-story-and-begin-to/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [The human heart would never pass the drunk test… If you took the human heart out of the human body and put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/the-human-heart-would-never-pass-the-drunk-test-if-you-took-the-human/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/all-my-life-i-have-been-haunted-by-the-obsession-that-to-desire-a/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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> [The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/the-nervous-system-of-any-age-or-nation-is-its-creative-workers-its/)

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> [The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/the-panic-disappeared-under-those-soothing-old-fingers-and-the-2/)

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> [What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/what-shouldn-t-you-do-if-you-re-a-young-playwright-don-t-bore-the/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## More by Tennessee Williams

> [“Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/nothing-human-disgusts-me-unless-its-unkind/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/these-are-the-intensities-that-one-cannot-live-with-that-he-has-to/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/well-you-better-look-out-they-got-a-new-bureau-in-the-guvamint-files/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/people-go-to-the-movies-instead-of-moving-hollywood-characters-are/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/they-chatter-together-like-birds-on-cypress-hill-but-all-they-say-is/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/you-take-it-for-granted-that-i-am-in-something-that-i-want-to-get-out/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [Guessing isn't knowing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/guessing-isn-t-knowing/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/i-respect-a-person-that-has-had-to-fight-and-howl-for-his-decency/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/life-is-all-memory-except-for-the-one-present-moment-that-goes-by-you/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/most-of-the-confidence-which-i-appear-to-feel-especially-when/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/i-cannot-write-any-sort-of-story-unless-there-is-at-least-one/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/i-know-so-well-what-becomes-of-unmarried-women-who-aren-t-prepared-to/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [“The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/the-jefferson-is-such-a-dignified-hotel-there-is-no-such-thing/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/a-drinking-man-s-someone-who-wants-to-forget-he-isn-t-still-young-and/)

[Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tennessee-williams/)

> [“As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tennessee-williams/as-for-me-no-one-will-ever-love-me-but-you-could-get-used-to-me/)

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