Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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