I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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