Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS