I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTake by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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