Some things are not forgiveable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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