There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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