Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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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 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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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