Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat 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?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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