Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 am more faithful than I intended to be!
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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