Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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?
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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