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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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