Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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