I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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