Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMen don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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