All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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 helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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