Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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