Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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