I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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