Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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