If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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