Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSJust tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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