I am more faithful than I intended to be!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTake by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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