Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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