I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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