We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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