And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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