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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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