Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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