There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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