Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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