It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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