It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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