Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhomever 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?
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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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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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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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 creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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