But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I 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.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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