Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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