If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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