But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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