Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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