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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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