Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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