The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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