Everybody is nothing until you love them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLuck is believing you’re lucky.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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