Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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