The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

Quote by Tennessee Williams

Topics: Tennessee Williams Quotes

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever...

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever...

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart,...

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart,...

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a...

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a...

Hate is a thing, a feeling, that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Hate is a thing, a feeling, that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick...

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick...

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who...

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who...

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits...

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits...

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it...

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it...

And besides, when you love somebody, you mustn't listen to what they say. They say...

And besides, when you love somebody, you mustn't listen to what they say. They say...

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is...

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is...

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the...

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel...

We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel...