In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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