Believe Quote by Tennessee Williams

“No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.”

Tennessee Williams

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“Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind”

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These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving…

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“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…

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People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in…

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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…

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You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

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Guessing isn't knowing.

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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

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I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

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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 barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest…

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