Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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