The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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 don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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