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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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