Loneliness Quote by Tennessee Williams

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

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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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