But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWilliam Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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 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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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.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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