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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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