But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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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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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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