We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSomething in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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