And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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