The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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