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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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