A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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