The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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