We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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We 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.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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