Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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And 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.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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