Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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