Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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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’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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