Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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