Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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