Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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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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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 creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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