Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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