The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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