We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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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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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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