But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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