Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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